broomva/skills · skills/orchestration/handback/SKILL.md

handback skillA

handback is agent-read markdown (skill) from broomva/skills: Terminal-message contract for an autonomous arc that has run out of agent-executable work and genuinely needs a human. Produces a WORK ORDER — asks first, each one an imperative addressed to the reader, carrying a default so silence is never fatal (the exception is narrow and must be named: irreversible, externally visible, or spends money) — followed by the unchanged nine-item receipt. Distinct from `handoff` (same arc, different reader: `handoff` writes `docs/handoffs/` for the NEXT AGENT; `ha.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add broomva/skills/handback@git:20260821.d47b817
Exact content
mdr add broomva/skills/handback@sha256:a2c96ae7ca67beae

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Versions

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git:20260821.d47b817 latest2026-08-21 d47b817 14,868 BA view · diff
git:20260819.ab724a32026-08-19 ab724a3 9,422 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (14868 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

broomva/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jpz47gw4kizwznh4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/handback
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2c96ae7ca67beaeafb8786c0a25a77c0ad1cd85bf9c3ca405a4afa0e4a75159

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