handoff SKILL.md skillA
handoff from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/handoff@git:20261021.55b02e6Pins git:20261021.55b02e6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261021.55b02e6, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,385 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Create a short-lived, restart-ready handoff so a fresh agent can resume work without rereading the full conversation, and delete it once read. Use when pausing work, ending a session, switching agents, preparing a clean-context restart, or finding a handoff addressed to you.
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
# Handoff ## A Handoff Is Temporary - The project notebook or log is the running record. Do not keep a standing handoff file beside it and update it as a second status page: the two drift, and a stale handoff misleads the next agent more than having none. - Write a handoff only at an actual hand-off, when another agent or a fresh session takes over. It points into the notebook; it does not replace it. - The receiving agent reads its handoff, confirms the notebook holds everything durable in it, moves anything missing into the notebook, and then deletes the handoff. - An agent that finds an old handoff for its own lane treats it the same way: check, fold into the notebook, delete. ## Optimize For Cold Restarts - A handoff is for a fresh agent with no working memory. - The goal is fast re-entry, not a narrative recap. - Update the canonical notebook or log first if the project already has one. Then write the handoff, and expect it to be deleted once read. - Compose this skill with domain skills such as `$lab-notebook`, `$job-babysitting`, or `$slurm`. ## Use This Contract Every handoff should answer: 1. Goal: - what problem or decision is in flight. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/handoff@sha256:177d9e13d7e6423eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.55b02e6, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4mgjwesii3bznpq7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 216 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261021.55b02e6 latest | 2026-10-21 | 55b02e6 | 3,385 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.999ac68 | 2026-03-20 | 999ac68 | 2,596 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3385 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4mgjwesii3bznpq7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/177d9e13d7e6423ef65acfcf76446a0acb442a2c01cb51b1a786d5360e4cb2ae
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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