agents:handoff SKILL.md skillA
agents:handoff from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/agents:handoff@git:20261006.a882371Pins git:20261006.a882371 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261006.a882371, committed Oct 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,497 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately, so you can step away and track it independently. Use when the user wants to background the current work, keep going without them, continue in a separate session, or says "hand this off", "run this in the background", "keep working on this while I'm gone", or "spin up an agent to finish this".
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 Hand the current work to a fresh background agent seeded with a summary of this conversation. The agent starts immediately in the current directory and returns control, so you can walk away and check on it later. Nothing is written to disk: the summary becomes the new agent's opening prompt. When the work is well-scoped and the user wants to step away or parallelize, offer the handoff. ## Write the Summary Synthesize the conversation into a prompt that lets an agent with zero prior context resume without asking questions. Cover: - **Goal**: what the work is trying to achieve, in one or two sentences. - **State**: what is done, what is in progress, what is untouched. - **Decisions**: choices already made and the reasoning, so the agent does not relitigate them. - **Next steps**: the concrete actions to take, in order. - **Anchors**: the branch, PR, issue, plan doc, or key files by path or URL. Point at these rather than restating them. - **Suggested skills**: a short list of skills the agent should invoke for this work (e.g. `pull-request:create`, `review:code`, a project skill). This is the biggest lever on whether the agent picks up your conventions. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/agents:handoff@sha256:4416b07d0a9dab40The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.a882371, 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_uv2d4g4si7t5xdtr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 6, 2026.
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 (5497 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
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uv2d4g4si7t5xdtr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/agents:handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4416b07d0a9dab4013919f73524a23cfc0671f396174f1cc00211a805e8ed666
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.