Category: Productivity
Handoff
Compacts the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent.
Works with
What it does
- 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.
When to use it
Compacts the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill handoff
- To install manually, download the
handoffskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.