HandoffSkill

Added to Onei Sep 22, 2026

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MIT

Summary

Compress the current Claude Code session into a portable handoff document so a fresh agent can continue the work without re-reading the whole conversation.

Features

Summarises the session into a handoff doc for another agent to resume
Writes to the OS temp directory, never the workspace
References specs, plans, issues and diffs by path instead of duplicating them
Adds a 'suggested skills' section for the next agent
Redacts API keys, passwords and PII automatically

Install This Skill

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Any AI agent

This skill is plain instructions — it works with any assistant that accepts custom instructions or system prompts.

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Paste it into your agent's instruction file or system prompt (for example AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, or a custom instructions field).
Ask the agent to apply the skill whenever the task matches.

Claude Code & Claude apps

Claude loads skills automatically from its skills directory.

Claude Code

Create a skill folder — personal: ~/.claude/skills/handoff/, or per-project: .claude/skills/handoff/
Save the skill content as SKILL.md inside that folder.
Claude Code picks it up automatically and invokes it when relevant.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/handoff

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop

Enable Skills under Settings → Capabilities, then upload the skill (a folder or zip containing SKILL.md).

One-prompt install

Paste this prompt into any agent with web access and it will install the skill for you.

Install the "Handoff" skill from Onei AI. Fetch https://onei.ai/skills/handoff, extract the full skill content from the page, and save it where you load skills from (for Claude Code: .claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md). From now on, apply this skill whenever it is relevant to my request.

Skill Content

Markdown Content

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---
name: handoff
description: Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
argument-hint: "What will the next session be used for?"
disable-model-invocation: true
---

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.

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.

Description

Handoff is a lightweight Claude Code skill from TypeScript educator Matt Pocock that compresses your current session into a portable handoff document so a fresh agent — or a teammate — can pick the work up without re-reading the whole conversation. On invocation it writes a concise summary to the OS temporary directory (never the workspace), references existing artifacts like specs, plans, ADRs, issues and diffs by path instead of duplicating them, and adds a "suggested skills" section naming which skills the next agent should load.

It is built for long or context-heavy sessions where you want to delegate, resume after a reset, or split a task across agents while keeping token usage down. It automatically redacts secrets and PII from the summary, and accepts an argument describing what the next session will focus on so the document is tailored to the continuation. Part of Matt Pocock's open-source skills collection, MIT licensed and installable with npx skills add mattpocock/skills skill=handoff.

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