handoff
Skill2 starsChanged 38 days agoMITView on GitHub
Pause work so a fresh agent can resume it, and pick up a paused task. Use when asked to hand off, pause, save progress, or continue from a handoff note; or before stopping with unfinished work.
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- xiaoxiaosrm/dsh-mattpocock-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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- domengabrovsek/agent-configtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- domengabrovsek/claudetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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- The-Vibe-Company/quivr★ 40ksame name
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- ArcReel/ArcReel★ 6.3ksame name
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In this repository18 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- atlassianSkill
- auditSkill
- code-qualitySkill
- commit-expertSkill
- create-issueSkill
- create-prSkill
- debugSkill
- defineSkill
- deliverSkill
- final-reviewSkill
- gherkinSkill
- githubSkill
- plainSkill
- second-opinionSkill
- senior-technical-writerSkill
- testingSkill
- triageSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 172 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 21
Commit unfinished edits as one wip: commit, saying in its body if the tree is broken.
- Distinctive: line 22
Write the note from assets/handoff.md to the path the script prints.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 172 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Handoff
The note is a contract: the next agent trusts it, so mark what you only assumed.
Script
Prints the current branch's note path and creates its folder: handoffs/<branch>.md under the audit dir, the first entry of APLUS_AUDIT_DIRS (environment or .env, default .audit), resolved from the primary checkout so every worktree shares it. --branch <name> names another branch, and is needed on a detached HEAD; --list prints each branch with a note and its path. Before creating the folder, it stops when the dir is inside the repository and not gitignored: ask the user before adding it to .gitignore.
node --experimental-strip-types <this skill's folder>/scripts/handoff-note.mts [--branch <name>] [--list]Pause
- Finish or back out the current step. Stop running agents and dev servers, and list any that stay up.
- Commit unfinished edits as one
wip:commit, saying in its body if the tree is broken. Push nothing and open no PR you did not already have. - Write the note from assets/handoff.md to the path the script prints.
- Link what already lives elsewhere (issue, PR, docs) instead of copying it. Keep secrets and local paths out of anything published.
Pick up
- Find the note with the script (
--listwhen the branch is unknown). Confirm the branch and HEAD match it, then readgit logand the diff against the base. - Re-run the note's loop command. Treat "verified" claims as unproven until it agrees, and trust
git logover the note. - Continue from the next action. Delete the note once resumed.
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