handoff SKILL.md skillA

handoff from aethrox/doctrine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/handoff@git:20260911.a358ed0

Pins git:20260911.a358ed0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: aethrox/doctrine
Path: skills/handoff/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20260911.a358ed0, committed Sep 11, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 9, 2026
Size: 4,004 bytes
Repository stars: 19
License: MIT

Hand off in-progress work, an on-call shift, or an open incident to another person or agent using a fixed four-part structure, so nothing load-bearing is lost between one owner and the next. Use when work needs to change hands mid-flight, an on-call rotation is ending, or an open incident is passing to a new owner. Not for compacting a conversation so a fresh session can resume, which is a session-continuity concern.

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

A handoff fails when the receiver has to reconstruct context the sender already had. This skill's defining constraint, from SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation); the structured handoff standard behind the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal for handoff communication, adapted here from clinical and on-call practice: every handoff has exactly four parts, in that order, and nothing that belongs in one part gets buried inside another.

This covers handing off live, in-progress work between owners: an on-call shift, an open incident, or a task mid-flight. It is not the same job as compacting a conversation for a fresh agent session to resume (that's a session-continuity concern) or as writing a postmortem (that's `incident-response`'s closed-incident artifact, written after the fact rather than mid-handoff).

## Phase 1: Situation

State the current state in one or two lines: what's happening right now, headline only. A reader who stops after this line should still know whether this is urgent. Don't lead with history or analysis; the situation is the "what," not the "how we got here."

## Phase 2: Background
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/handoff@sha256:d09757beb13a989e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.a358ed0, 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_fl2yj6o5sl7su6bn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fl2yj6o5sl7su6bn)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 11 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260911.a358ed0 latest	2026-09-11	a358ed0	4,004 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.2a45dbb	2026-08-09	2a45dbb	3,909 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.5c2aad2	2026-08-09	5c2aad2	3,813 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.21f29b0	2026-08-09	21f29b0	3,852 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 (4004 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

aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fl2yj6o5sl7su6bn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d09757beb13a989e49a1463d03b9524c2afdb98e22673abbfb2c2f91d79cd34d

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