Handoff
Reviewable capability layer for coding agents. Portable skills, delivery gates, workflow patterns, and verification-first engineering.
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Create compact handoff documents for another agent, session, or human to continue work. Use when a task is long-running, context is about to compact, work must pause, an audit needs resumable state, or the user asks for a handoff, continuation note, checkpoint, or next-session brief.
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SKILL.md
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Handoff
Capture operational state, not a transcript. The next agent needs facts, paths, decisions, and next actions.
When To Use
Use for:
- long-running audits;
- multi-repo publication work;
- paused implementation;
- debugging sessions with active hypotheses;
- research with source ledgers;
- job/client-search workflows;
- context compaction or thread transfer.
Handoff Contents
Include:
- objective and current status;
- repos, branches, important paths, URLs, and local servers;
- decisions made and why;
- files changed, commits, PRs, or releases;
- commands already run and their result;
- active hypotheses, blockers, or pending checks;
- suggested skills for the next session;
- exact next steps in priority order.
Compression Rules
- Link to artifacts instead of copying them.
- Do not duplicate full diffs, logs, PRDs, plans, or source docs.
- Preserve concrete dates and versions when relevant.
- Redact secrets, credentials, private contacts, and unnecessary personal data.
- Separate confirmed facts from assumptions.
Output Location
If creating a file, write it outside the project unless the user asks for an in-repo artifact. Use the OS temp directory or a clear handoff/ location approved by the repo conventions.
Final Response
Tell the user where the handoff lives, what it covers, and what the next agent should do first.
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most agent orchestration skills give in 291 tokens
Counted across 742 of the 995 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
- run the full test suite after integrating changesin 53 of 742, across 20 files
- reference existing artifacts by path or URLin 52 of 742, across 22 files
- dispatch one agent per independent problem domainin 50 of 742, across 17 files
- verify fixes do not conflictin 45 of 742, across 13 files
- include a suggested skills section in the documentin 45 of 742, across 15 files
- redact sensitive informationin 41 of 742, across 11 files
- save to the temporary directory of the operating systemin 39 of 742, across 9 files
- tailor the document to user-provided focus argumentsin 39 of 742, across 9 files
- spot check agent changes for systematic errorsin 34 of 742, across 7 files
- write a handoff document summarising the current conversationin 31 of 742, across 6 files
- assign each agent a specific scopein 23 of 742, across 8 files
- provide specific scope and clear goalin 23 of 742, across 5 files
Said here and by no other author read
- Capture operational state not a transcript.
- List repos branches paths URLs and servers.
- List files changed commits PRs or releases.
- State active hypotheses blockers or pending checks.
- Preserve concrete dates and versions when relevant.
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.