handoff
๐ฏSkillfrom mattpocock/skills
Installation
npx vibeindex add mattpocock/skills --skill handoffnpx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill handoff~/.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md
|A collection of small, composable engineering skills designed for real development workflows, featuring grilling sessions for requirement alignment, issue tracking integration, and task triage with customizable labels.
Overview
The handoff skill is part of Matt Pocock's "Skills For Real Engineers" collection, a set of small, composable agent skills designed for real-world development rather than vibe coding. The handoff skill enables structured context transfer between agent sessions, ensuring that work-in-progress state, decisions, and constraints survive across session boundaries without information loss.
Key Features
- Structured context handoff: Captures the current state of work, outstanding decisions, and blockers into a format another session can pick up immediately
- Composable with other skills: Works alongside /grill-me (requirement alignment), /triage (ticket categorization), and /prototype (rapid iteration) as part of a unified engineering workflow
- Model-agnostic: Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents; not locked to any single provider
- Issue tracker integration: Connects with GitHub, Linear, or local file-based trackers to persist handoff context alongside tickets
- 30-second setup: Install via
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills, then run /setup-matt-pocock-skills to configure your tracker and labels
Who is this for?
- Developers who use AI coding agents across multiple sessions and need continuity between them
- Teams practicing trunk-based development where handoff clarity between contributors matters
- Engineers who want their AI agents to retain context about what was tried, what failed, and what to do next without repeating themselves
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SKILL.md
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