handoff-recover SKILL.md skillA
handoff-recover from sting25/claude-code-handoff is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover@git:20260811.ad203dbPins git:20260811.ad203db in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sting25/claude-code-handoff
- Path
skills/handoff-recover/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260811.ad203db, committed Aug 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 18,790 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Compose a retroactive curated handoff when the previous session ended without invoking /handoff. Requires the scripts/hooks installed by this repo's ./install.sh — not a prompt-only skill. Triggered by the SessionStart "ACTION: RUN /handoff-recover" banner (emitted when handoff_current.md still has the placeholder Notes block) or by explicit /handoff-recover. Reads the previous session's raw per-turn dump under .claude/handoff_backups/ and the most recent curated handoff under…
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-recover — retroactive handoff composition > **Prerequisite:** this skill leans on scripts and hooks from > https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff — the raw dumps it > recovers from are written by the Stop hook, and it runs > `handoff_recover_tail.sh` / `write_handoff.sh` from `~/.claude/bin/` > (script install) or the plugin's `bin/` (plugin install). > None of that ships with this file alone; run `./install.sh` from that > repo (or install the plugin) once per machine first. The previous session ended without running `/handoff` — crashed, killed, terminal closed, or just never invoked. `SessionEnd` wrote a safety-net snapshot, so `handoff_current.md` has git state but no curated Notes. The SessionStart hook detected this and printed an ACTION banner telling you to invoke this skill. Note: since the `PreCompact` hook joined the safety net, a placeholder can also be written MID-session (an uncurated session that hit auto or manual compaction), not only at session end — so this banner can appear even though the "previous session" is the same still-running conversation, freshly compacted. The recovery …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover@sha256:8f3bfd82c12748f3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260811.ad203db, 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 5 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 11, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260811.ad203db latest | 2026-08-11 | ad203db | 18,790 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.9a69b76 | 2026-08-11 | 9a69b76 | 18,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.acc5d39 | 2026-08-11 | acc5d39 | 18,036 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.bdfc82c | 2026-08-11 | bdfc82c | 17,935 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.7d4af4f | 2026-08-11 | 7d4af4f | 16,483 B | A | view |
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 (18790 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
sting25/claude-code-handoff · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jnhwat55gvfozr23 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f3bfd82c12748f3a1b0825699e863a688a57d92604e95bc8b226d08f50b53c3
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