Handoff

by alexeykrol

Handoff is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by alexeykrol in claude-code-starter.

192 stars61 forkson alexeykrol/claude-code-starterAdded 2026/09/06Repository updated 2026/07/26

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Install Handoff

Copy 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/alexeykrol/claude-code-starter/tree/main/templates/global/skills/handoff ~/.claude/skills/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/alexeykrol/claude-code-starter.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: templates/global/skills/handoff/SKILL.md in alexeykrol/claude-code-starter
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/handoff
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Handoff does

Handoff prepares reliable cross-session transfer files after auditing project state and documentation. Use it to pass work to a new Claude Code session, preserve context, and verify that the next session understood the scope and readiness state.

Handoff is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Handoff comes from a repository tagged claude-code, development-environment, frameworks and vibe-coding.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skill: Handoff

Core Rule

Create a handoff only after the project state and documentation have been reconciled. A handoff is not a chat summary; it is the final transfer artifact after audit, consistency cleanup, verification, and scoped git handling. The handoff is the control surface between the owner and a session.

Do not trust memory files, old handoffs, README/status files, SNAPSHOT, or prior chat as current truth without checking the workspace.

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

Frequently asked about Handoff

What else does alexeykrol publish alongside Handoff?
Handoff is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from alexeykrol/claude-code-starter, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Content Index, Content Review and Database Migration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Handoff does, and is maintained by alexeykrol in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the alexeykrol/claude-code-starter page.
How does Handoff compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Handoff ranks #2915 by stars among the 3278 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 Handoff against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.