handoff – Agents & Automation skill for AI agents
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up, referencing existing artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs) by path or URL instead of duplicating them. Use whenever the user wants to hand off to a fresh agent, is ending a session mid-task, asks for a handoff doc or
Install the handoff skill with one command
Pick the tool you use, copy the command and paste it in your terminal. The skill lands in that tool's skills folder and is ready in your next session.
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://skill.dn1nguoi.com/z/handoff-ced10.tgz | tar xz -C ~/.claude/skills
Call it in Claude Code: /handoff – then describe the task you want done.
Codex
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && curl -fsSL https://skill.dn1nguoi.com/z/handoff-ced10.tgz | tar xz -C ~/.codex/skills
Call it in Codex: $handoff – then describe the task you want done.
Hermes Agent
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills && curl -fsSL https://skill.dn1nguoi.com/z/handoff-ced10.tgz | tar xz -C ~/.hermes/skills
Call it in Hermes Agent: /handoff – then describe the task you want done.
DeepSeek
mkdir -p ~/.deepcode/skills && curl -fsSL https://skill.dn1nguoi.com/z/handoff-ced10.tgz | tar xz -C ~/.deepcode/skills
Call it in DeepSeek: /handoff – then describe the task you want done.
SKILL.md content
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.
Sections
- Goal of next session (from user argument or inferred)
- State of play (what's done, what's blocking)
- Open decisions (what the next agent must decide)
- Skills to use (concrete list)
- Artifacts (paths/URLs to PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, branches, PRs — do not duplicate)
Tooling
See [references/companion_tooling.md](references/companion_tooling.md). Tools: template + dedup + recommender. Agent: cs-handoff-author. Command: /cs-handoff.
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Version: 1.0.0
Derived: Matt Pocock (MIT) + this repo's wrapper
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