Handover from Claude to Open WebUI

A job started in Claude rarely has to finish there. A Zambo HANDOVER moves the job itself to Open WebUI as one checkable record: the goal, the finished steps with a verifiable receipt for each, the decisions, and the exact next step. The receiver in Open WebUI starts from the record, not from a summary of it. HANDOVER is Zambo's flagship product.

Before you start: Zambo on the Claude side

In Claude on a Pro or Max plan, open Customize, then Connectors, select Add custom connector, name it Zambo, paste https://zambo.dev/mcp as the remote MCP server URL, and select Connect. There is no key and no local install: Zambo is a hosted remote server.

Full setup: Add Zambo to Claude. The free tier is 20 free calls per day. Work run through Zambo in Claude saves a verifiable receipt per call as it runs, and those receipts are what the handover carries.

Step 1: finish the Claude side and create the handover

  1. Do the work in Claude through Zambo tools, so each finished step has its receipt saved at the moment it ran.
  2. At the end of the Claude session, give one wrap up instruction: hand this job over with the goal, what is done, what is next, every decision, and the receipts attached. Zambo assembles the handover as a single record and returns a link in the pattern https://zambo.dev/handover/ followed by the handover ID. Send that one link to whoever continues the job in Open WebUI. Nothing else needs to be copied across: no recap, no pasted chat history.
  3. Open the returned handover link yourself before sending it on. Check the goal reads the way the job was commissioned, the next step is exact, and any step nobody verified is named as not checked.

Step 2: connect Zambo on the Open WebUI side

MCP servers in Open WebUI are admin only. On Open WebUI v0.6.31 or later, an admin opens Settings, then Admin, then Integrations, clicks + Add Connection under External Tool Servers, sets Type to MCP (Streamable HTTP), enters https://zambo.dev/mcp as the Server URL, sets Auth to None, and saves. Use the MCP connection type, not OpenAPI: the wrong type can leave the interface stuck on a loading screen.

Full setup: Add Zambo to Open WebUI. New to Zambo on either side? The bridge page walks the whole install: Add Zambo to your AI.

Step 3: open the handover in Open WebUI and continue

  1. Open the handover link in your browser first and read the record: the goal, the finished steps with their receipts, the decisions, and the exact next step.
  2. Open a chat in Open WebUI, click +, then Integrations and Tools, and enable the Zambo tool for this chat. The admin connection alone does not switch Zambo on inside a conversation.
  3. Paste the handover link into the chat and say: open this handover, check the receipts that carry weight, record accept or flag on the handover, then continue from the recorded next step.

What travels in the handover

Verify note

Before accepting, open one or two receipt links from inside the handover and paste each receipt ID into zambo.dev/verify. A match confirms the saved result was not changed since it was saved. That is what a receipt proves: the record is intact, not that the work was right. Judging the work is the receiver's job, now done against the record instead of a recap. Then record accept, or flag what is wrong, on the handover itself. The transfer is not complete until that decision exists.

Why not just paste a summary into Open WebUI?

A summary is narration: it can skip the step that failed and drop the decision that constrained everything after it, and none of that is detectable later. The handover record fixes each step under its receipt at the time it ran in Claude, so Open WebUI can recompute any step instead of believing it. The general pattern is on the flagship page: AI agent handover.

More handover recipes

A handover is only as strong as the receipt the receiving side can check. The AER-1 badge kit carries that same verifiable-receipt proof outward, as an embeddable badge for the pages and profiles where the work is shown.