Handoff

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Captures decisions, constraints, and file references without lossy summarisation.

by mattpocock

Source

Install

Copy install prompt for AI

Natural-language prompt you can paste into any Claude conversation. Claude Code installs it to ~/.claude/skills/handoff/; claude.ai and Claude Desktop adopt it for the current chat and tell you how to save it permanently.

Copy install command

curl -fsSL https://spellbook.build/i/handoff | bash

Drops the file into ~/.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md. The script is plain shell — inspect it by dropping the | bash.

Download skill folder

Download .zip

A handoff/ folder with SKILL.md (and any supporting files) — unzip into ~/.claude/skills/.

Benchmarks

This skill isn't in a benchmarked category yet. Set metadata.type in the frontmatter to activate scorecards.

Skill content

---
name: handoff
description: Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
argument-hint: "What will the next session be used for?"
disable-model-invocation: true
---

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

handoff context-engineering productivity session-management