Handoff

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

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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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/handoff/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/handoff
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Handoff does

Handoff writes or updates a HANDOFF.md document so the next AI agent with fresh context can continue the work. Use it to record goals, progress, what worked, what didn't, and next steps before handing off a coding session.

Handoff is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Handoff comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Write or update a handoff document so the next agent with fresh context can continue this work.

Steps:

Check if HANDOFF.md already exists in the project
If it exists, read it first to understand prior context before updating
Create or update the document with:
- Goal: What we're trying to accomplish
- Current Progress: What's been done so far
- What Worked: Approaches that succeeded
- What Didn't Work: Approaches that failed (so they're not repeated)
- Next Steps: Clear action items for continuing

Save as HANDOFF.md in the project root and tell the user the file path so they can start a fresh conversation with just that path.

Frequently asked about Handoff

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Handoff?
Handoff is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, HN Summarize and Half Clone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Handoff does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does Handoff compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Handoff ranks #389 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 Handoff against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.