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Skill alirezarezvani/claude-skills/engineering/handoff/skills/handoff

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. References existing artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs) by path or URL instead of duplicating them. Use when user wants to hand off the conversation to a fresh agent or starts a new session that picks up prior work.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill handoff

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SKILL.md

2.1 KB, 361 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Handoff

Derived from Matt Pocock's handoff (MIT). Matt's no-duplication discipline preserved verbatim. Additions: tools + references + cs-* wrapper (see references/companion_tooling.md).

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save it to a path produced by mktemp -t handoff-XXXXXX.md (read the file before you write to it).

Suggest the skills to be used, if any, by the next session.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

Sections

  • Goal of next session (from user argument or inferred)
  • State of play (what's done, what's blocking)
  • Open decisions (what the next agent must decide)
  • Skills to use (concrete list)
  • Artifacts (paths/URLs to PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, branches, PRs — do not duplicate)

Tooling

See references/companion_tooling.md. Tools: template + dedup + recommender. Agent: cs-handoff-author. Command: /cs:handoff.

Version: 1.0.0 Derived: Matt Pocock (MIT) + this repo's wrapper

What ships with it: 7 files

45.8 KB alongside SKILL.md, 3 of them executable

references/

scripts/

Gives 2 of the 12 instructions most agent orchestration skills give in 361 tokens

Counted across 848 of the 1,300 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

  • Dispatch one agent per independent problem domainin 56 of 848, across 42 files
  • Run full test suite after integrationin 55 of 848, across 42 files
  • Verify fixes do not conflictin 40 of 848, across 32 files
  • Review each summary when agents returnin 40 of 848, across 31 files
  • Write a handoff document summarising the current conversationhere, and in 30 of 848, across 25 files
  • Reference existing artifacts by path or URLin 26 of 848, across 24 files
  • Give each agent a specific scopein 19 of 848, across 10 files
  • Give each agent a clear goalin 19 of 848, across 10 files
  • Include a suggested skills section in the documentin 18 of 848, across 16 files
  • Tailor the doc to the user argumentshere, and in 18 of 848, across 15 files
  • Issue all subagent dispatches in the same responsein 17 of 848, across 11 files
  • Use git worktrees for isolationin 17 of 848, across 8 files

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.

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