Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Use when the user says handoff, is running out of context, or wants a fresh agent to pick the work up. Triggers on: handoff, hand this off, compact this conversation.
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# Handoff Document
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Use when the user says handoff, is running out of context, or wants a fresh agent to pick the work up. Triggers on: handoff, hand this off, compact this conversation.
This skill is imported from `mattpocock/skills` (MIT) and is **user-invoked** upstream.
## When to use this skill
- Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
- Use when the user says handoff, is running out of context, or wants a fresh agent to pick the work up.
- Triggers on: handoff, hand this off, compact this conversation.
## Instructions
Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.
Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, naming which skills the next agent should call the Skill tool for.
Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uxsjwxyvk35elol4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akillness/jeo-skills/handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ad71c198ebafd1fa50fa7ac196ee413a6e8ac87bb401ee4c6e1cbdc0ba99e7ca
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.
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