Name: claude-handoff
Author: mattpocock

About

Imported from mattpocock/skills (skills/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md) via skills.sh. Install upstream with npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill claude-handoff. Copyright stays with the author.

Write a handoff summary of the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Instead of saving it, launch a background agent seeded with the summary as its prompt: claude --bg --name "<descriptive name>" "<handoff summary>". It starts in the current working directory and returns immediately; the user manages it with claude agents.

Always pass -n/--name with a descriptive name (e.g. --name "Fix login bug"); it sets the display name shown in the job list, session picker, and terminal title.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the summary, 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, since the summary becomes the agent's prompt.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the summary accordingly.

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/mattpocock-skills-claude-handoff/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

mattpocock-skills-claude-handoff.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "mattpocock-skills-claude-handoff",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "claude-handoff",
  "description": "Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.",
  "publisher": "mattpocock",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills",
      "path": "skills/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://www.skills.sh/mattpocock/skills/claude-handoff",
      "key": "mattpocock/skills/skills/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md"
    }
  },
  "instructions": "Write a handoff summary of the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Instead of saving it, launch a background agent seeded with the summary as its prompt: `claude --bg --name \"<descriptive name>\" \"<handoff summary>\"`. It starts in the current working directory and returns immediately; the user manages it with `claude agents`.\n\nAlways pass `-n`/`--name` with a descriptive name (e.g. `--name \"Fix login bug\"`); it sets the display name shown in the job list, session picker, and terminal title.\n\nInclude a \"suggested skills\" section in the summary, naming which skills the ne",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 267
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/mattpocock-skills-claude-handoff/manifest?version=1.0.0

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