handoff
The facts
Its description
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
The description the agent reads to decide when to use it.
When it starts
This skill is not picked from conversation at all: its frontmatter sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so the agent never selects it on its own and the user has to invoke it directly (for example as a slash command) when they want the current conversation compacted into a handoff document for another agent.
A model's summary of when it is used.
Who can start it
Only you
Only you can start it. The agent never picks it on its own.
What it takes when started
What will the next session be used for?
What to type after its name when you start it.
What leads to it
- ask-matt hands off to this for a new harness, directory, colleague, or mid-phase fork ask-matt, line 21
Other skills that hand off to this one, call it, require it or offer it instead, as a model read them.
Licence
MIT, from LICENSE
The terms its author shares it under, which let it be shown here.
Other files in this skill (1) Close
The text
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 ($TMPDIR, else /tmp; %TEMP% on Windows) - 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.
Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.
If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.
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