Audit Handoff

by sterlingcrispin

Audit Handoff is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by sterlingcrispin in claude_slash_commands.

200 stars18 forkson sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commandsAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/03/31

View source on GitHub Download repo ZIP

claude-skillscodex-skills

Install in seconds

Install Audit Handoff

Copy Audit Handoff into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands/tree/main/audithandoffdoc ~/.claude/skills/audithandoffdoc

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: audithandoffdoc/SKILL.md in sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/audithandoffdoc
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Audit Handoff does

Audit Handoff creates a structured handoff document that summarizes the current task, evidence, risks, and next steps. Use it when another agent needs to get fully up to speed quickly.

Audit Handoff is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Audit Handoff comes from a repository tagged claude-skills and codex-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Please perform a deep audit of our current task to produce a handoff document that gets another agent fully up to speed.

Deliverable: Create a file named AUDIT_HANDOFF.md at the project root.

Document your current understanding of:

what we are building
why we are building it
the project's telos (ultimate purpose/end-state)
how we are approaching implementation
what has been completed so far
how we define and measure success
current hypotheses
what is true (with evidence) vs what is assumed
what might be wrong
highest-risk areas
what we just tried and the outcome
next hypothesis
open questions

Required Structure (use these exact section headers)

# Executive Summary

5-10 bullets: current project state, trajectory, and key concerns.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Audit Handoff

What else does sterlingcrispin publish alongside Audit Handoff?
Audit Handoff is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Checkpoint, Codex Audit and Codex Direct File Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Audit Handoff does, and is maintained by sterlingcrispin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands page.
How does Audit Handoff compare to other Writing skills?
Audit Handoff ranks #1037 by stars among the 1227 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Audit Handoff against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.