handoff SKILL.md skillA

handoff from kalabint/llm-tooling is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/handoff@git:20260908.ab8f87a

Pins git:20260908.ab8f87a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: kalabint/llm-tooling
Path: skills/handoff/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260908.ab8f87a, committed Sep 8, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 7, 2026
Size: 8,438 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: AGPL-3.0

Read OR write the project's session-handoff doc. WRITE mode updates it so a fresh agent can pick up the work (what was built, in-flight files, open questions). LOAD mode reads the doc AND the files it references so YOU get up to speed at the start of a session. Use when the user says "update handoff", "write a handoff", "hand off", or signals a session is wrapping up (→ write); or "read the handoff", "load the handoff", "get up to speed", "catch me up", or pastes the doc path at the start of a…

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" has two modes. Pick one before doing anything:

- **LOAD (onboard)** - the user is *starting/resuming* a session and wants YOU current.
  Triggers: "read the handoff", "load the handoff", "get up to speed", "catch me up",
  pasting the doc's path, or invoking `/handoff` in a fresh session with no work to record yet.
  Action: read the doc top to bottom, then read the load-bearing files it points to (its
  "Files to read to proceed" / open-items / in-flight sections), then STATE the ranked next
  possible steps (name the file/function/check each involves) and WAIT for the user to pick.
  Do NOT edit the handoff, change code, or run builds.
- **WRITE (update)** - the user is *wrapping up* and wants the doc to capture this session.
  Triggers: "update handoff", "write a handoff", "hand off", end-of-session signals.
  Action: follow "## What to write" below.

If genuinely ambiguous, infer from session state: a fresh session with nothing new to
record → LOAD; a session with substantive uncommitted/just-built work → WRITE. When still
unclear, ask which.

**A bare `/handoff` with an active doc that is already current means LOAD, not WRITE.** If the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/handoff@sha256:f2154c5c07f7ab11

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.ab8f87a, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_aclfzzaaglccnii4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_aclfzzaaglccnii4)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every day.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260908.ab8f87a latest	2026-09-08	ab8f87a	8,438 B	A	view · diff
git:20260907.47ea7d2	2026-09-07	47ea7d2	4,403 B	A	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 (8438 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

kalabint/llm-tooling · 6 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aclfzzaaglccnii4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalabint/llm-tooling/handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f2154c5c07f7ab1106eeb86935c77d3c25d3392832d5122569fd037d7a67630d

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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