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handoff from timharris707/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add timharris707/skills/handoff@git:20261009.3cdaceePins git:20261009.3cdacee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- timharris707/skills
- Path
skills/run/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261009.3cdacee, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 6,534 bytes
- Repository stars
- 44
- License
- MIT
Write a structured session handoff so a fresh session resumes losslessly. Use when context is filling up (around half the window), when wrapping a work session, or when the user says "handoff", "checkpoint", "wrap up", or "save state".
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 where the work stands into one small file so the next session, or a fresh one after a context reset, resumes with zero re-explanation. The handoff is a **pointer, not a transcript**: it says where things are and where the durable records live; it never becomes a running log or a second copy of the plan. ## When to write one **At roughly half the context window, write the handoff; don't wait for the window to fill.** A context window is the fixed amount of conversation an agent session can hold; as it fills, the oldest details fall away and the quality of long-chain reasoning degrades before the hard limit is ever hit. Writing the handoff at the halfway point captures state while the session can still summarize it accurately, and makes the succession clean instead of a scramble. Also write one at any natural wrap-up: end of a work session, before a deliberate context reset, or whenever the user asks for a checkpoint. ## Where it goes …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add timharris707/skills/handoff@sha256:0eb2a0998f7e2465The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.3cdacee, 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, between Aug 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261009.3cdacee latest | 2026-10-09 | 3cdacee | 6,534 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.6cc6e56 | 2026-10-08 | 6cc6e56 | 6,459 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.b5bf4cd | 2026-08-19 | b5bf4cd | 4,739 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.09ff901 | 2026-08-13 | 09ff901 | 4,787 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.b625c57 | 2026-08-08 | b625c57 | 4,113 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 (6534 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
timharris707/skills · 44 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p4vbzrvqgdksrbx4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=timharris707/skills/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0eb2a0998f7e246545636208e4ea2e09cd8a4cbe3430510b9c32d9ff1e880a12
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.
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