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- git:20260928.51b6e0b, committed Sep 28, 2026
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- MIT
Master on-call shift handoffs with context transfer, escalation procedures, and documentation. Use this skill when transitioning on-call responsibilities between engineers and ensuring the incoming responder has full situational awareness, when writing a shift summary that captures active incidents, ongoing investigations, and recent changes, when handing off mid-incident so a fresh engineer can take over the incident commander role without losing context, when onboarding a new engineer to the…
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What the file says
# On-Call Handoff Patterns Effective patterns for on-call shift transitions, ensuring continuity, context transfer, and reliable incident response across shifts. ## When to Use This Skill - Transitioning on-call responsibilities - Writing shift handoff summaries - Documenting ongoing investigations - Establishing on-call rotation procedures - Improving handoff quality - Onboarding new on-call engineers ## Core Concepts ### 1. Handoff Components | Component | Purpose | | -------------------------- | ----------------------- | | **Active Incidents** | What's currently broken | | **Ongoing Investigations** | Issues being debugged | | **Recent Changes** | Deployments, configs | | **Known Issues** | Workarounds in place | | **Upcoming Events** | Maintenance, releases | ### 2. Handoff Timing ``` Recommended: 30 min overlap between shifts Outgoing: ├── 15 min: Write handoff document └── 15 min: Sync call with incoming Incoming: ├── 15 min: Review handoff document ├── 15 min: Sync call with outgoing └── 5 min: Verify alerting setup ``` ## Templates and detailed worked examples …
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How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/on-call-handoff-patterns@sha256:46d03bf3a2922e77The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.51b6e0b, 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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Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
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