handoff-orchestrator SKILL.md skillA

handoff-orchestrator from wayne930242/straw-boss is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wayne930242/straw-boss/handoff-orchestrator@git:20260918.9b0ecc5

Pins git:20260918.9b0ecc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wayne930242/straw-boss
Path
skills/handoff-orchestrator/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260918.9b0ecc5, committed Sep 18, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 2, 2026
Size
1,775 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Use when an approved work scope moves to a new orchestrator in its own Herdr tab.

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

# Hand off one orchestrator scope

## 1. Get approval

A handoff creates another user-facing window, so the current main agent first presents one approval decision, naming the scope that moves and any work this orchestrator retains.
A new tab is created only after the user approves.

## 2. Carry continuity

Pass only goal and scope, confirmed decisions and user terms, current state and evidence, next action, and exclusions.
Omit empty fields and conversation text.

## 3. Launch and transfer

Run `handoff-orchestrator.py` with `--user-approved`, this pane, cwd, provider, and the continuity fields.
Pass `--dispatch` for each in-progress dispatch in the moving scope; a handoff that retains nothing lists every dispatch this pane coordinates.
The script creates and labels an independent tab, starts the receiving orchestrator, prompts it to invoke `boss-say` and then accept, and verifies the handshake after that route is established.
It waits up to two 120-second acceptance windows, re-offering only to a receiver that stopped without accepting, so give the command a tool timeout of at least five minutes.
Final failure closes the new tab and leaves ownership here.

## 4. Leave the scope
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wayne930242/straw-boss/handoff-orchestrator@sha256:28ca9e961968c1a1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.9b0ecc5, 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 6 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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git:20260911.fca2e0e2026-09-11 fca2e0e 1,474 BA view · diff
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git:20260910.d41ed7f2026-09-10 d41ed7f 1,532 BA view · diff
git:20260902.9f0e2e12026-09-02 9f0e2e1 1,363 BA 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 (1775 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

wayne930242/straw-boss · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oyvvydvlr53achio
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wayne930242/straw-boss/handoff-orchestrator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28ca9e961968c1a1df115cff22b95bf122cb7c4fecec1ef12006fa09113acfe4

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