buzz-handoff SKILL.md skillB
buzz-handoff from block/berd is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add block/berd/buzz-handoff@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- block/berd
- Path
skills/buzz-handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,572 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,043
- License
- Apache-2.0
Read and hand off Buzz channels or threads in a private agent conversation using the installed Buzz CLI. Use when a user shares a buzz://message URL or Buzz channel UUID, asks to continue Buzz work privately, or explicitly approves a reply back to Buzz.
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
# Buzz Handoff
## Requirements
This skill requires a Buzz CLI that implements the handoff contract introduced
by [`block/buzz@9e6ee814b`](https://github.com/block/buzz/commit/9e6ee814b):
- `buzz` on `PATH`
- `BUZZ_RELAY_URL` configured in the agent process environment
- `BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY` configured in the agent process environment
- `BUZZ_AUTH_TAG` when required by the configured identity
- message-link thread reads and compact message output support
Before reading or writing, check only whether the required variables exist.
Never print their values:
```bash
test -n "${BUZZ_RELAY_URL:-}" && test -n "${BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY:-}"
```
If configuration is missing, stop and tell the user to configure the standard
Buzz CLI environment outside the conversation, using their harness or operating
system's secure environment mechanism, then retry. Never ask the user to paste,
echo, or save a private key in chat. Do not read Buzz Desktop's keychain,
credential store, app-data files, or managed-agent records. Do not discover or
select a Buzz Desktop-managed identity.
## Read workflows
Read a linked thread:
```bash
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add block/berd/buzz-handoff@sha256:ff2fa9fffa214af3The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read Buzz Desktop's keychain)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3572 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 base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
block/berd · 1,043 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dcrbrgurooe3m2pf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=block/berd/buzz-handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ff2fa9fffa214af3b780f17e6f6379d44a488d12e28bdeee2371a987e0d4ce40
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