Devin handoff

Skill club-cog/devin-handoff/.agents/skills/devin-handoff

Spin off parallel cloud Devin sessions. Hand off a task to a fresh cloud Devin session that runs in the background — each gets its own VM with shell, browser, and full repo access — so you can fan out several sessions at once and keep working locally while they run. Use for parallel or long-running work and anything needing Devin's full environment: multi-file changes, running servers, CI work, browser automation, migrations, or large refactors. Also an API for reading and interacting with current sessions — given a session URL or ID, the check/poll commands return its PR, status, branch, and latest message.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add club-cog/devin-handoff --skill devin-handoff

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2 things to look at

reads credentialsReads from 1 credential source: `DEVIN_API_KEY`.
runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 7 commands, including `scripts/devin-handoff.sh create` and 6 more.

SKILL.md

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Devin Handoff

Hand off a task to Devin. Devin gets its own VM with shell, browser, and full repo access. You get a URL to watch progress, or can poll until the session completes.

All scripts/devin-handoff.sh paths below are relative to this skill's directory. If installed as a Claude Code or Codex plugin, use "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.agents/skills/devin-handoff/scripts/devin-handoff.sh".

Prerequisites

DEVIN_API_KEY env var (get one at https://app.devin.ai/settings/api-keys)
curl, jq in PATH
git (optional, for auto-detecting repo/branch/diff)

When to use

Task needs a running server, database, or Docker
Task requires browser interaction (OAuth, screenshots, E2E tests)
Task involves CI/CD pipelines or deployments
Task is long-running and the user wants to continue locally
You need parallel execution on a separate machine

Steps

1. Gather context

From the current working directory:

Repo: Run git remote get-url origin, extract owner/repo
Branch: Run git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
Diff: Run git diff HEAD (truncated to 100KB automatically)
Task: The user's request, concise and specific
Context (optional): Summarize what you've learned — files examined, root cause hypotheses, partial fixes

2. Create the session

scripts/devin-handoff.sh create \
  --task "Fix the auth timeout bug — update middleware to respect configured timeout" \
  --context "Investigated src/auth/session.py and src/auth/middleware.py. Timeout is hardcoded at 30m in session.py:42."

The script auto-detects repo, branch, and diff. The --context flag is optional but helps Devin start faster. All sessions are automatically tagged with handoff.

3. Report the URL and poll

Tell the user the session URL. If they want to wait for completion, poll until the session finishes:

scripts/devin-handoff.sh poll SESSION_ID --interval 15

The poll command prints status updates and exits when Devin finishes. It also prints the PR URL if one was created.

4. Archive when done (optional)

Archive a session to clean it up from the sidebar:

scripts/devin-handoff.sh archive SESSION_ID --org-id ORG_ID

Or use --archive on poll to auto-archive when the session finishes:

scripts/devin-handoff.sh poll SESSION_ID --interval 15 --archive --org-id ORG_ID

What ships with it: 1 file

11.7 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable

scripts/

devin-handoff.shruns11.7 KB

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most agent orchestration skills give in 602 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 conversationin 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 argumentsin 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

Said here and by no other author read

Gather context from the working directory
Create the session using the handoff script
Poll until the session finishes
Archive the session when done

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