handoff SKILL.md skillA
handoff from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/handoff@git:20261020.ef5d7a9Pins git:20261020.ef5d7a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261020.ef5d7a9, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 15, 2026
- Size
- 9,556 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Side-route skill for compacting the current session into a transient handoff doc when no pipeline compression artifact fits — mid-skill, exploratory, side-route, or non-pipeline work. Not for routine inter-skill handoffs; use the calling skill's closing summary + **Next session:** line instead.
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 Compact the current session into a transient handoff doc so a fresh agent — same user, another agent, another machine, or a teammate — can pick up the work without copy-pasting context by hand. ## Invocation Position `/handoff` is a side-route skill. It is invoked ad-hoc, not from any default pipeline path. Use `/handoff` when: - a session has run long and the next step is better served by a fresh context window - you are mid-skill (mid-`/execute`, mid-`/qa`, mid-`/improve-codebase-architecture`) and the existing inter-skill compression artifacts (closing summary, research file, PRD issue, slice issue, PR) do not fit because you are not at a skill boundary - you are doing exploratory, debugging, or other non-pipeline work where no natural compression artifact exists - you want to hand off to a teammate, a different agent (Codex, Gemini, another Claude session), or a different machine Do not use `/handoff` when: - a primary pipeline skill is about to print its `**Next session:**` runtime line — that is the inter-skill compression artifact, and using `/handoff` alongside it duplicates work and creates two competing handoff records …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/handoff@sha256:a1e740cc93ebbd78The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.ef5d7a9, 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 4 versions of this file, between May 15, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 52 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261020.ef5d7a9 latest | 2026-10-20 | ef5d7a9 | 9,556 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.0fb326b | 2026-10-18 | 0fb326b | 9,538 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.b3a0b0e | 2026-08-25 | b3a0b0e | 9,338 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260515.5e202b5 | 2026-05-15 | 5e202b5 | 9,344 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 (9556 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5slztkzzzfur5hnb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a1e740cc93ebbd78aa50d6075779b71b7724e54faa5ba5ac822fe8b71d01d64c
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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