handback SKILL.md skillA
handback from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/handback@git:20261017.e8c7be7Pins git:20261017.e8c7be7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/orchestration/handback/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261017.e8c7be7, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 17,614 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
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…
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
# handback — end an arc with a work order, not a lab notebook **Spec:** `broomva/workspace` → `docs/specs/2026-08-18-agent-handback-contract.html` (BRO-2179). ## Why this skill exists Measured over 994 Claude Code transcripts (analysis set: 100 sessions of ≥6h wall-clock and ≥150 assistant turns): | | | |---|---| | Long arcs whose final message mentions a blocker at all | 31 / 100 | | Long arcs **halting on a human** (terminal-stance phrasing) | **18 / 100** | | …of those 18, containing a conforming ask block | **0 / 18** | | …containing an imperative anywhere in the message | 3 / 18 | | …containing any `?` at all | 13% | | …with the question next to the blocker it describes | 6% | | Stating a default if the human stays silent | 5% of all 100 | | Ever emitting a push notification | **0 / 100** | | Blockers knowable before the arc started | **81%** | The two blocker rows differ on purpose. The broad count (31) includes messages that merely *mention* being blocked — "the pre-commit hook blocked it", "#381 remains blocked by the hang". The narrow count (18) is the defensible one: a terminal message that stops the arc **on a person**. The enforcement gate keys on …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/handback@sha256:26948871ae766a5fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.e8c7be7, 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 3 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 30 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261017.e8c7be7 latest | 2026-10-17 | e8c7be7 | 17,614 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.d47b817 | 2026-08-21 | d47b817 | 14,868 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.ab724a3 | 2026-08-19 | ab724a3 | 9,422 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 (17614 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
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · 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/26948871ae766a5fc1f40c41a6dbe3e29b4faf7448ca12632589ec722abf3217
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.