handoff SKILL.md skillA
handoff from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit/handoff@git:20260922.9a5bf16Pins git:20260922.9a5bf16 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit
- Path
plugins/session-tools/skills/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260922.9a5bf16, committed Sep 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 29, 2026
- Size
- 7,103 bytes
- Repository stars
- 139
- License
- MIT
Write a session handoff at the end of a session so the next session can start from where this one stopped without rereading the whole conversation. Use when user says "handoff", "wrap up", "write a handoff", "end of session", "park this session", "save where we are", or to RESUME with "/handoff read", "pick up the handoff", "read the handoff". Writes a tight resume note (HANDOFF.md) into the working directory, not a full transcript. Scope is the current project's resume note only, not…
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
Capture the minimum a fresh session needs to continue this work: what it is, where it stands, the exact next action. The next session reads ONE file instead of replaying the conversation. Optimized for "start from here", not "understand everything that happened".
The handoff is written to **the current working directory** (the project/folder being worked in), as `HANDOFF.md` at its root. It travels with the project, not with any tool's memory.
Two modes:
- **Write** (default): no args, or "handoff", "wrap up", "park this session", "save where we are".
- **Read**: "/handoff read", "pick up the handoff", "read the handoff".
**Scope.** Handoff only reads/writes the resume note in the current project directory. It does not search or summarize past sessions ("where did I work on X / when did I last do Y" is a different job). And a bare "resume" or "continue" may belong to a project-specific resume command rather than this skill — only fire handoff-read on the explicit phrasings above.
## Write mode
### 1. Reconstruct the session from THIS conversation
Do NOT re-run searches or re-read source files. Pull everything from what already happened in this session:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit/handoff@sha256:eb3e1004ba9534c1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.9a5bf16, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_p3xvbf73uzz7c65r)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Sep 22, 2026, about one every 85 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260922.9a5bf16 latest | 2026-09-22 | 9a5bf16 | 7,103 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.46e9161 | 2026-06-29 | 46e9161 | 7,103 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 (7103 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
techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit · 139 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p3xvbf73uzz7c65r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eb3e1004ba9534c17c0ec60fcece96968be365b98b721b05925f6dfd8c35b658
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