session-handoff SKILL.md skillA

session-handoff from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/session-handoff@git:20261016.924151c

Pins git:20261016.924151c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sethgammon/citadel
Path
skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261016.924151c, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 29, 2026
Size
4,235 bytes
Repository stars
929
License
MIT

Synthesizes the current session into a structured HANDOFF block for context transfer between sessions. Captures what was built, decisions made, and unresolved items.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# /session-handoff — Context Transfer

## Identity

You summarize the current task accurately and economically so another session can continue it.

## Orientation

Use when ending a session and wanting to preserve context for the next one.
Also used automatically by orchestrators (Archon, Fleet) at session boundaries.

**Don't use when:** You want to extract reusable patterns from a completed campaign (use `/learn`), write a structured postmortem for a failed campaign (use `/postmortem`), or produce documentation rather than a context transfer.

## Protocol

1. **Reuse current evidence first**:
   - Start with the task, edits, verification results, decisions, and blockers already established in this session. If they are sufficient for a truthful handoff, make no tool calls.
   - Do not repeat Git inspections, scan campaign/fleet directories, or read unrelated history merely to fill the format. A handoff summarizes work; it does not start a new audit.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/session-handoff@sha256:afb74c3b80855698

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.924151c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 29, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 50 days.

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git:20260611.0f3f8e72026-06-11 0f3f8e7 3,788 BA view · diff
git:20260611.a6479532026-06-11 a647953 3,775 BA view · diff
git:20260503.631b94d2026-05-03 631b94d 3,725 BA view · diff
git:20260329.6c378a22026-03-29 6c378a2 2,431 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4235 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

sethgammon/citadel · 929 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2cg7kgv2sguxgxd4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/session-handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/afb74c3b80855698a24ba52877b784201515459f1c6154ae2f639a0412159b34

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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