diff --git a/SKILL.md b/SKILL.md
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--- a/SKILL.md
+++ b/SKILL.md
@@ -552,8 +552,11 @@ and reconciles the target doc with the Body.
 - **Never claim an agent's result before its notification arrives.**
 - **Self's own context is the most expensive in the pipeline.** Every
   notification re-reads all of it. Rotate at about 300k context or at a phase
-  boundary: write a short handoff to the scratchpad and ask the operator to
-  `/clear`. The handoff carries only what the mind does not hold: the session
+  boundary: write a short handoff and ask the operator to `/clear`. A handoff
+  is named by its area, `HANDOFF-eureka-self-<area>-<date>.md` (for example
+  `HANDOFF-eureka-self-eureka-2026-10-09.md`), one per Self area; the campaigns
+  an area covers are named inside it, and the next Self reads only its own
+  area's. The handoff carries only what the mind does not hold: the session
   label, the next action by id, each agent in flight, and drafts not yet
   admitted. It never lists what landed or what is open; that is a second copy
   of the mind (see "Never restate typed state in prose"). On re-entry, Self
diff --git a/references/changelog.md b/references/changelog.md
index edf3d3b..a4c6160 100644
--- a/references/changelog.md
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@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Evidence. An Eyes prior-art pass on multi-persona minds (for `eureka-body:ruling
 
 What changed. `SKILL.md` step 2 gains "Research is always kept": a prior-art or literature pass is committed to `docs/research/` before the fork is put. The Eyes brief template says so.
 
+## 2026-10-09: handoffs are named per area
+
+Life pass `life/handoff-per-area`, on the previous Self's open small task.
+
+Evidence. Operator, 2026-10-09: "Split the handoff between Eureka and Aetheria/Ghostlight." Two handoffs were written that day, `F:\Projects\HANDOFF-eureka-self-eureka-2026-10-09.md` and `F:\Projects\HANDOFF-eureka-self-aetheria-ghostlight-2026-10-09.md`, one Self per area. The rotation bullet still said to write one handoff "to the scratchpad", which neither file did.
+
+What changed. The `SKILL.md` rotation bullet names a handoff by area (`HANDOFF-eureka-self-<area>-<date>.md`), one per Self area, and says the next Self reads only its own area's.
+
 ## 2026-10-08: overlap before fanning out, and a writable pins mount
 
 Self, re-entry pass `self-2026-10-08b`, on proposals from Life.