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Imported from xyzxyz442/x442-skills (harness/delegate-handoff-workspace/fixtures/restricted/AGENTS.md). Install upstream with npx skills add xyzxyz442/x442-skills --skill restricted. Copyright stays with the author.

AGENTS

Shared guidelines.

@guidelines

Handoff Coordination

This repo coordinates cross-session / cross-repo work through a lease-based handoff board in .agents/handoff/. Claim before you work. Release when you stop.

Before starting any tracked work, check the board and claim your unit. claim fails if someone holds a live lease — pick another handoff or tell the user who holds it. Do not edit a handoff doc you do not hold the lease for (the hooks block it).

.agents/handoff/handoff list
.agents/handoff/handoff claim HANDOFF_ID "what you're doing"

File a new handoff when your work hands off to another session/repo, or when you find work you will not finish here (SEVERITY is low, medium, or high):

.agents/handoff/handoff new HANDOFF_ID --title "..." --severity SEVERITY

Carrying your own work into your next session is not a handoff. Solo session continuity — notes to yourself, a to-do list, where you left off — stays off the board, in whatever notes or session tool you already use. The board is for work another session, agent, or repo has to pick up.

Titles must not contain : — a colon breaks the doc's YAML frontmatter in markdown previews. Use an em dash instead (Handoff — auth suite); the tool folds any colon you pass to — anyway, in --title, --note, --audience, --severity, and --blocked-on.

Handoffs have a type. The default is coordination (the claim/release work item above). A standalone handoff is a self-contained reference/knowledge doc (porting guide, eval report, compaction brief) — it needs no claim, is freely editable, and is listed apart. Create one with --standalone, or bring an existing file onto the board with import:

.agents/handoff/handoff new HANDOFF_ID --standalone --title "..."
.agents/handoff/handoff import ./FILE.md --standalone

Handoff docs are committed to the repo and its git history — never paste keys, secrets, passwords, or PII into one. Redact them; if the next agent needs a credential, prompt the user and supply it via a safe channel (env var, secret-manager reference, or out-of-band), recording only its name in the doc.

Release when you stop, with an honest status. done means verified against the live code, not "the doc says resolved" — it requires --verified-by. blocked requires --blocked-on (another handoff id, or "external: ..."). INDEX.md is generated; never hand-edit it.

.agents/handoff/handoff release HANDOFF_ID --status open
.agents/handoff/handoff release HANDOFF_ID --status blocked --blocked-on OTHER_ID
.agents/handoff/handoff release HANDOFF_ID --status done --verified-by "how you verified live code"

Sending work to someone with no board access — a contractor, another team, an AI tool without this protocol — goes through export/import --result, not a pasted doc:

.agents/handoff/handoff export HANDOFF_ID --to WHO
.agents/handoff/handoff import --result .agents/handoff/briefs/HANDOFF_ID.brief.md

export claims the id and renders a self-contained brief to .agents/handoff/briefs/ — commit it so the executor can pull it. import --result splices their reported result onto the doc but never sets status — done stays your call, made after you reproduce their evidence yourself, the same as any other release.

Full protocol: .agents/handoff/README.md.