Handoff
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
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Install Handoff Spec
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-spec --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .claude/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .claude/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-specType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-spec --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .agents/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .agents/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-spec --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .cursor/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .cursor/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git --path skills/engineering/handoff-spec--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-spec --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .gemini/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .gemini/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-specInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .github/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .github/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install dzhng/skills handoff-spec --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dzhng/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/handoff-spec .opencode/skills/handoff-spec && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "handoff-spec" agent skill from https://github.com/dzhng/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/handoff-spec into .opencode/skills/handoff-spec/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "handoff-spec", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
handoff-spec- GitHub stars
- 1k
- Token cost
- ~349 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 222 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 27
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Handoff Spec is an agent skill from dzhng/skills. Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
Its SKILL.md is about 350 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Reusable AI agent skills for software factories: explore ideas, write specs, implement, review, and run autonomous research. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and other… The licence is MIT.
Example prompts
- “/handoff-spec”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d513228. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Handoff Spec loads about 349 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 22 tokens; SKILL.md has 222 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from dzhng/skills at commit d513228, republished under its MIT licence (© dzhng). 222 words, ~349 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/handoff-spec/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- handoff-spec
- description
- Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
- disable-model-invocation
- true
Handoff Spec
I'm moving this spec's work to another machine or another agent. The next session starts cold: it has the repository and nothing else. It has none of this conversation, none of this machine's files and none of your memory. Leave the spec so that session can carry on as if it had been here.
Collect what this session knows and the spec doesn't yet say, from the discussion and from the work itself, and put it in the spec:
- what is done, what is half-done and exactly where it stopped, and what is next;
- what I decided or corrected along the way, and how I want the work done;
- calls you made where I was silent, and anything still waiting on me;
- what is known to be broken or unverified, with what you already found out about it;
- anything that lives only on this machine and the next session needs: unpushed branches, uncommitted work, scratch results worth keeping.
Write it into the spec's own handoff, in place: the spec stays one current account, not a transcript with a new note on top. Then push, so everything the spec points at exists on the remote.
Done when a fresh agent, given only the repository, would pick the same next step you would, and would not repeat a question I've already answered.
© dzhng, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/engineering/handoff-spec of dzhng/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit d513228
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders. This page covers the copy in dzhng/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Compare with similar skills
Handoff Spec next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handoff Spec this skilldzhng/skills | 1k | — | ~349 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Handoffalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Handoffalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~532 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Session Handoff Documentthedotmack/claude-mem | 99k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Handoffnexu-io/open-design | 100k | — | ~547 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Session Handoff Writercodewhale-hq/Codewhale | 41k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Handoff Spec
What does Handoff Spec do?
Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent. Handoff Spec is an agent skill from dzhng/skills. Hand a spec that is mid-implementation to another machine or another agent.
How do I install Handoff Spec in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/handoff-spec in dzhng/skills) into .claude/skills/handoff-spec in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Handoff Spec in Codex?
Run `npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/handoff-spec in dzhng/skills) into .agents/skills/handoff-spec in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Handoff Spec in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add dzhng/skills --skill handoff-spec -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/handoff-spec, .gemini/skills/handoff-spec, .github/skills/handoff-spec and .opencode/skills/handoff-spec in your project.
What does Handoff Spec need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Handoff Spec is instructions for the agent only.
Does Handoff Spec access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Handoff Spec safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Handoff Spec use?
Handoff Spec is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Handoff Spec use?
About 349 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Handoff Spec?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Handoff Spec: Handoff (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Handoff (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Session Handoff Document (thedotmack/claude-mem, 99k stars) and Handoff (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Handoff Spec?
dzhng (a GitHub user) maintains it in dzhng/skills, which has 1,020 GitHub stars. The repository holds 27 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: dzhng/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.