A skill your agent uses when transferring orchestrator responsibility, summarizing current state for a new peer, recovering after a closed session, or preparing takeover notes.

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Install Handover

skills CLI
$ npx skills add prassanna-ravishankar/repowire --skill handover -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install prassanna-ravishankar/repowire handover --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prassanna-ravishankar/repowire.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/handover .claude/skills/handover && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
handover
GitHub stars
264
Token cost
~266 tokens
SKILL.md length
115 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
20
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when transferring orchestrator responsibility, summarizing current state for a new peer, recovering after a closed session, or preparing takeover notes.

  • Transferring orchestrator responsibility
  • SKILL.md covers Write a handover, Read a handover and Avoid
  • Calls git
  • Summarizing current state for a new peer

What it does

Handover is an agent skill from prassanna-ravishankar/repowire. Use when transferring orchestrator responsibility, summarizing current state for a new peer, recovering after a closed session, or preparing takeover notes.

Its SKILL.md is about 270 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: May the agents talk . Connect Claude Code, Opencode, Codex, Pi across projects, across machines and with your telegram.

When your agent uses it

  • Transferring orchestrator responsibility
  • Summarizing current state for a new peer
  • Recovering after a closed session
  • Preparing takeover notes

Example prompts

  • “/handover”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7c8100a. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Handover loads about 266 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 115 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~266

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

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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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 115 words (~266 tokens).

“Use handover when continuity matters more than chat transcript detail.”

— opening of SKILL.md by prassanna-ravishankar
name
handover

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/handover of prassanna-ravishankar/repowire.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7c8100a

Compare with similar skills

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Orca Orchestrationstablyai/orca89k—~916Automated safety check: PassMIT
Agent Orchestrator Taskruvnet/ruflo74k2 repos~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Handover

What does Handover do?

A skill your agent uses when transferring orchestrator responsibility, summarizing current state for a new peer, recovering after a closed session, or preparing takeover notes. Handover is an agent skill from prassanna-ravishankar/repowire. Use when transferring orchestrator responsibility, summarizing current state for a new peer, recovering after a closed session, or preparing takeover notes.

When should I use Handover?

Handover fits situations like: transferring orchestrator responsibility; summarizing current state for a new peer; recovering after a closed session; preparing takeover notes.

How do I install Handover in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add prassanna-ravishankar/repowire --skill handover -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/handover in prassanna-ravishankar/repowire) into .claude/skills/handover in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Handover in Codex?

Run `npx skills add prassanna-ravishankar/repowire --skill handover -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/handover in prassanna-ravishankar/repowire) into .agents/skills/handover in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Handover 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 prassanna-ravishankar/repowire --skill handover -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/handover, .gemini/skills/handover, .github/skills/handover and .opencode/skills/handover in your project.

What does Handover need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Handover needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Handover access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Handover 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 Handover use?

No licence was found for Handover or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Handover use?

About 266 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.1k 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 Handover?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Handover: Summarize (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars), Responsive Units (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Team Agent Orchestration (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars) and Orca Orchestration (stablyai/orca, 89k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Handover?

prassanna-ravishankar (a GitHub user) maintains it in prassanna-ravishankar/repowire, which has 264 GitHub stars. The repository holds 20 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: prassanna-ravishankar/repowire on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.