Handoff

Handoff is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by anombyte93 in prd-taskmaster.

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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/anombyte93/prd-taskmaster/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/anombyte93/prd-taskmaster.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 anombyte93/prd-taskmaster
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/handoff
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Handoff does

Handoff detects available capabilities, recommends one execution mode, and presents a structured choice for the user. It appends the task workflow, then dispatches the selected mode to continue the prd-taskmaster pipeline.

Handoff is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Handoff comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-development, claude-code, claude-skills and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Phase 3: Handoff

Declarative phase skill. Invoked by the prd-taskmaster orchestrator when current_phase is HANDOFF. Never called directly by a user.

The one rule: detect what the user has, recommend ONE mode, give the user a structured choice, dispatch the chosen mode. Mode D executes only on tier=premium; otherwise it is a locked teaser.

Entry gate

Call mcp__plugin_prd_go__check_gate(phase="HANDOFF", evidence={}) for diagnostics.

check_gate is an EXIT gate: it requires user_mode_choice and plan_file_exists — both produced by HANDOFF itself, i.e. evidence to advance, not to enter. On first entry neither exists yet, so a gate_passed: false here is EXPECTED — the state machine's legal transitions already guarantee only legal entry.

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

Commands Handoff provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/pro
/goal
/sync

Frequently asked about Handoff

What else does anombyte93 publish alongside Handoff?
Handoff is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anombyte93/prd-taskmaster, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Atlas, Customise Workflow and Discover. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Handoff does, and is maintained by anombyte93 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anombyte93/prd-taskmaster page.
How does Handoff compare to other Automation skills?
Handoff ranks #1234 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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.