/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
One skill from claude-skills.
shell
$ npx -y skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill handoff --agent claude-codeInstalls just this skill. Get the whole plugin for auto-invocation.
How it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/handoff
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
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
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Stars23,060
Forks3,139
LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
Ships with claude-skills
SKILL.md
handoff.SKILL.md
--- name: handoff description: 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. argument-hint: "What will the next session be used for?" license: MIT metadata: derived_from: "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/handoff" original_author: "Matt Pocock (@mattpocock)" original_license: MIT voice: "Matt Pocock — no-duplication, reference-existing-artifacts, tailored to next-session focus" version: 1.0.0 --- # Handoff > Derived from [Matt Pocock's handoff](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/handoff) (MIT). Matt's no-duplication discipline preserved verbatim. Additions: tools + references + cs-* wrapper (see [references/companion_tooling.md](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.
