handoff-spec
Skill1.5k starsChanged 8 days agoMITView on GitHub
Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
10 other projects use a version of this.
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- dzhng/jevgrepword for word, first seen Nov 7, 2026
- Buddhilive/buddhi-cliword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- dzhng/duet-agentword for word, first seen Oct 30, 2026
- dzhng/yapword for word, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- cskwork/handoff-spec-kittheir own version, first seen Sep 7, 2026
- sidneyswift/skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 21, 2026
Who's talking about dzhng/skills
- A Hacker News story“Skills for Building Software Factories”Hacker News · Jul 20, 2026 · 1 points
- sudosubin/agents.nix“agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: d186052 → a4076b7”GitHub · Nov 7, 2026
- sudosubin/agents.nix“agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-11-04 → 0-unstable-2026-11-07”GitHub · Nov 7, 2026
- sudosubin/agents.nix“agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-11-01 → 0-unstable-2026-11-04”GitHub · Nov 4, 2026
- sudosubin/agents.nix“agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-30 → 0-unstable-2026-11-01”GitHub · Nov 1, 2026
The biggest 5 of 23 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.
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Talked about on GitHub and Hacker News (23 times).
On GitHub · 22
- Nov 7, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: d186052 → a4076b7 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Nov 7, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-11-04 → 0-unstable-2026-11-07 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Nov 4, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-11-01 → 0-unstable-2026-11-04 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Nov 1, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-30 → 0-unstable-2026-11-01 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 30, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-28 → 0-unstable-2026-10-30 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
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- Oct 28, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-21 → 0-unstable-2026-10-28 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 21, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-20 → 0-unstable-2026-10-21 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 20, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-19 → 0-unstable-2026-10-20 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 19, 2026Ratchet source file size in the tooling lane — Allmight97/audiobook-boss0 reactions · 1 comment
- Oct 19, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-15 → 0-unstable-2026-10-19 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 16, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: a7f6f2e → f6819ca — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 15, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-14 → 0-unstable-2026-10-15 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 14, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: e370d6a → f2fbf92 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 14, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-12 → 0-unstable-2026-10-14 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 13, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-05 → 0-unstable-2026-10-12 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 5, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-04 → 0-unstable-2026-10-05 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 5, 2026New rules from the agent-skills review: 11 checks (SQL, Drizzle, TS, shadcn, Tailwind, Expo) — rbaumier/comply0 reactions
- Oct 5, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: 0-unstable-2026-10-02 → 0-unstable-2026-10-04 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 3, 2026agent-skills.github.dzhng.skills: init at 0-unstable-2026-10-02 — sudosubin/agents.nix0 reactions
- Oct 1, 2026[Candidate] dzhng/skills/skills/engineering/audit-choices - audit-choices — ProSkillsMD/proskills0 reactions · 1 comment
- Oct 1, 2026[Candidate] dzhng/skills/skills/authoring/write-skills - write-skills — ProSkillsMD/proskills0 reactions · 1 comment
- Oct 1, 2026[Candidate] dzhng/skills/skills/authoring/eval-skills - eval-skills — ProSkillsMD/proskills0 reactions · 1 comment
On Hacker News · 1
- Jul 20, 2026Skills for Building Software Factories1 point
Other versions10 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 4
- dzhng/jevgrep★ 3.2k100% same
- dzhng/yap★ 112100% same
- dzhng/duet-agent★ 55100% same
- Buddhilive/buddhi-cli★ 1100% same
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 6
- launchapp-dev/animus-cli★ 39same name
- sidneyswift/skills★ 9same name
- cskwork/handoff-spec-kit★ 1same name
- miovrag/claude-skills★ 1same name
- aiuxmasters/agentic-design-tools★ 0same name
- tjrice42/design-judgment-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository35 other files it gives its agents.
- audit-agentsSkill
- eval-skillsSkill
- write-skillsSkill
- audit-decisionsSkill
- audit-performanceSkill
- audit-testsSkill
- auto-researchSkill
- claudeSkill
- close-specSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- codexSkill
- eli5Skill
- explore-unknownsSkill
- find-state-machinesSkill
- implement-specSkill
- implement-spec-with-codexSkill
- implement-spec-with-goalSkill
- marketing-pagesSkill
- port-featuresSkill
- ratchet-filesSkill
- refactor-cleanSkill
- retroSkill
- reviewSkill
- write-docsSkill
- write-specSkill
- write-testsSkill
- cinematic-shotSkill
- isometric-motionSkill
- launch-videoSkill
- rendererSkill
- xiaohei-illustrationsSkill
- compare-screenshotsSkill
- design-with-imagesSkill
- preview-shotsSkill
- screenshot-critiqueSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 4 edited versions we read keep these.
2
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 12
Leave the spec so that session can carry on as if it had been here.
- Distinctive: line 26
Write it into the spec's own handoff, in place: the spec stays one current account, not a transcript with a new note on top.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 4 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 Spec
I'm moving this spec's work to another machine or another agent. The next session starts cold: it has the repository and nothing else. It has none of this conversation, none of this machine's files and none of your memory. Leave the spec so that session can carry on as if it had been here.
Collect what this session knows and the spec doesn't yet say, from the discussion and from the work itself, and put it in the spec:
- what is done, what is half-done and exactly where it stopped, and what is next;
- what I decided or corrected along the way, and how I want the work done;
- calls you made where I was silent, and anything still waiting on me;
- what is known to be broken or unverified, with what you already found out about it;
- anything that lives only on this machine and the next session needs: unpushed branches, uncommitted work, scratch results worth keeping.
Write it into the spec's own handoff, in place: the spec stays one current account, not a transcript with a new note on top. Then push, so everything the spec points at exists on the remote.
Done when a fresh agent, given only the repository, would pick the same next step you would, and would not repeat a question I've already answered.
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

