Claude Handoff

by tt-a1i

Claude Handoff is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tt-a1i in matt-skills-with-to-goal.

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Install Claude Handoff

Copy Claude 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/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/tree/main/skills/in-progress/claude-handoff ~/.claude/skills/claude-handoff

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/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md in tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/claude-handoff
Collection: One of 40 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Claude Handoff does

Claude Handoff writes a concise handoff summary and starts a fresh background agent with that prompt so work can continue immediately. Use it when you need to pass an active task to another agent without saving a file.

Claude Handoff is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Claude Handoff comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, codex and coding-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Write a handoff summary of the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Instead of saving it, launch a background agent seeded with the summary as its prompt: claude --bg --name "<descriptive name>" "<handoff 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, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

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

Frequently asked about Claude Handoff

What else does tt-a1i publish alongside Claude Handoff?
Claude Handoff is one of 40 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Handoff, Ask Matt and Ask Matt. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Claude Handoff does, and is maintained by tt-a1i in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal page.
How does Claude Handoff compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Claude Handoff ranks #2321 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Claude Handoff against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.