Use when a working session is ending, the context window is nearly full, work needs to pass to a teammate or a fresh session, or the user says "hand this off", "write this up before we lose it", "I'm starting a new session", or "summarize where we are". Produces a handoff document that lets the next session resume without re-reading the transcript.
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
A session ends three ways: the context fills up, the person leaves, or the work moves to someone else. All three lose the same thing — the reasoning that never made it into a file. This skill writes that reasoning down before it evaporates.
## Core Behavior
Write a handoff file, do not summarize in chat. Chat scrolls away; a file survives a `/clear`, a crash, and a different person opening the repo tomorrow.
Default path: `HANDOFF.md` at the repo root, or `docs/handoff/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<topic>.md` if the repo already has a docs convention. If a handoff file exists, append a new dated section rather than overwriting — the history of what was tried is half the value.
## What Goes In It
Write these sections in this order. Skip a section only when it is genuinely empty.
**Goal.** One sentence: what this work is supposed to achieve, in the user's terms, not the ticket's.
**State.** What is done, what is half-done, what has not been started. Be specific about half-done — "auth works, but the refresh-token path is stubbed and returns a fixed string" beats "auth in progress".
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.97b5147, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_76eztc4dtpxo2g4r
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=onewave-ai/claude-skills/session-handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4a456f51ae24d0a5e603d9c4f28c22b11a3c815cae1b515fc12086998cfe7752
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.
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