handoff SKILL.md skillA
handoff from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/handoff@git:20261007.31f5d23Pins git:20261007.31f5d23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tmusser/ai-engineering-skills
- Path
skills/handoff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261007.31f5d23, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 26, 2026
- Size
- 10,722 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Compress project context into HANDOFF.md with workflow state, analysis checkpoint, next gate, verification, current hypothesis, freshness anchors, optional gotcha references, and a resume packet for the next agent session.
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 ## Purpose Compress context into a launchpad for the next session. A handoff is not a transcript — it is durable state that lets a fresh agent continue safely without the full chat history. A handoff is also not authoritative merely because the file exists. A fresh session must establish both snapshot freshness and internal resume trust before treating an existing `HANDOFF.md` as current state. ## When to use Use at the end of a session, before switching agents, or before pausing work. When resuming from an existing handoff, run the fresh-session trust gate before using its status, next task, verification claims, referenced files, unresolved items, or analysis checkpoint as current state. ## Inputs - SPEC.md, PLAN.md, TODO.md, VERIFY.md - Optional `GOTCHAS.md` when recurring project sharp edges have been recorded - Active modes, current phase, next gate - Analysis checkpoint when one exists: `FRESH | NOT_NEEDED | STALE | REQUIRED` - Compatibility seams, invalid-if constraints, verify gate status, review-required items, next gate command when relevant - Context risk level - Active debugging hypothesis (if any) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/handoff@sha256:d731e52dd8917f1fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.31f5d23, 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_z7t3lo6nxa7jfbal)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261007.31f5d23 latest | 2026-10-07 | 31f5d23 | 10,722 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.5a2073a | 2026-07-27 | 5a2073a | 8,851 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.d3cff88 | 2026-07-24 | d3cff88 | 6,726 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.aaa8842 | 2026-07-24 | aaa8842 | 5,148 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260626.611ea2c | 2026-06-26 | 611ea2c | 3,027 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260626.1692c35 | 2026-06-26 | 1692c35 | 2,833 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 (10722 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
tmusser/ai-engineering-skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z7t3lo6nxa7jfbal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/handoff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d731e52dd8917f1f0ee95902f3b28724e011a959fe39477d2906835b68313e76
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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