IJFW Handoff

IJFW Handoff is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by FerroxLabs in ijfw.

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Install IJFW Handoff

Copy IJFW 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/FerroxLabs/ijfw/tree/main/claude/skills/ijfw-handoff ~/.claude/skills/ijfw-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/FerroxLabs/ijfw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: claude/skills/ijfw-handoff/SKILL.md in FerroxLabs/ijfw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ijfw-handoff
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What IJFW Handoff does

IJFW Handoff generates a concise session handoff file and loads it on the next session start. Use it when ending work, hitting context limits, or resuming a paused task.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Generate a structured handoff for session continuity.

Creating a Handoff

Capture in .ijfw/memory/handoff.md:

Handoff: <timestamp>
====================

Status
------
| Phase N | Wave NA | Step N.M | <done/in-progress/blocked> |

<What's done. What's in progress. What percentage complete.>

Decisions
---------
<Key decisions made this session with rationale. 1 line each.>

Modified Files
--------------
<Files created/edited with brief description of changes.>

Next Steps
----------
<Ordered list. What to do first when resuming.>

Blockers
--------
<Open questions, missing info, external dependencies.>

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

Frequently asked about IJFW Handoff

What else does FerroxLabs publish alongside IJFW Handoff?
IJFW Handoff is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from FerroxLabs/ijfw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auto Memorize, Critique and IJFW AGENTS.md Manager. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way IJFW Handoff does, and is maintained by FerroxLabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the FerroxLabs/ijfw page.
How does IJFW Handoff compare to other AI Engineering skills?
IJFW Handoff ranks #2691 by stars among the 2970 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 IJFW Handoff against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.