handoff SKILL.md skillA
handoff from chainreactors/ioa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chainreactors/ioa/handoff@git:20260608.9514d23Pins git:20260608.9514d23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chainreactors/ioa
- Path
skills/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260608.9514d23, committed Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 1,181 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Fire-and-forget work delegation. Use when work exceeds the current task's scope and should be transferred to another agent without waiting.
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
Delegate work to another agent. Send the context and move on — no acknowledgment, no callback, no tracking.
## Message format
Send with `content_type: "handoff"` on the message envelope.
Content body:
```json
{
"title": "Short label for the delegated work",
"message": "Detailed context: what you found, where to look, what to try"
}
```
Routing is in `refs.nodes`, not in content. Set `refs.nodes` to the target agent's node ID.
## When to use
- Work exceeds current task's scope or expertise
- A finding needs different tools to act on
- Passing pipeline output to the next stage
Use **checkpoint** instead when you need to pause and wait for a response.
## Writing the message
Brief the receiver like a colleague who just walked in:
- What you found (evidence, not conclusions)
- Where to look (targets, endpoints, parameters)
- What you already tried
- What tools might help
## Key rule
After sending, keep working. Do not wait for acknowledgment — it will never come.Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chainreactors/ioa/handoff@sha256:a2b1bd55b9626437The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260608.9514d23, 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_bhzhsx23jvrc6fyi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 8, 2026.
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 (1181 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
chainreactors/ioa · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bhzhsx23jvrc6fyi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chainreactors/ioa/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2b1bd55b9626437ca5d8d0f96b913975b16bf72088245a98af5a96223d3164d
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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