claude-handoff skill
Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.
Is the claude-handoff skill safe?
Clean: nothing in its files matched our rules. We read 2 files in the folder on 2026-10-25.
No findings.
Install the claude-handoff skill
A skill is a folder. Copy it into your agent's skills folder and the agent loads it when the task matches its description.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git /tmp/skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/in-progress/claude-handoff ~/.claude/skills/claude-handoff
In the Claude apps, zip the folder and upload it from the Skills settings. The folder on GitHub
The instructions your agent would load
SKILL.md as published, without the frontmatter. Read it on GitHub
Write a handoff summary of the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save it to the temporary directory of the user's OS, then launch a background agent seeded with it as its prompt: claude --bg --name "" -- "$(cat )". Passing the file keeps the shell from running backticks or expanding $ in the 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.
More skills from mattpocock/skills
- Aask-mattAsk which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
- Achief-of-staffPursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.
- Acode-reviewReview the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code match what the originating issue/spec asked for?). Runs both reviews in parallel sub-agents and reports them side by side. Use when the user wants to review a branch, a PR, work-in-progress changes, or asks to \"review since X\".
- Acodebase-designShared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another skill needs the deep-module vocabulary.
- Adiagnosing-bugsDiagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
- Adomain-modelingBuild and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.
- Agit-guardrails-claude-codeSet up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to prevent destructive git operations, add git safety hooks, or block git push/reset in Claude Code.
- Agrill-meA relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
- Agrill-with-docsA relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
- AgrillingGrill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
- AhandoffCompact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
- AimplementImplement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.