# Handoff Resume

> Resume work from a previously-written handoff document. Triggers on phrases like "resume from handoff", "pick up where we left off", "load that handoff", "continue the handoff", or when the user pastes a path that looks like a handoff doc.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-aploe-claude-handoff-skill-handoff-resume`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [aploe](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aploe)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [aploe](https://github.com/aploe)
- **Source:** https://github.com/aploe/claude-handoff-skill/tree/main/skills/handoff-resume

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-aploe-claude-handoff-skill-handoff-resume
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Handoff Resume

Pick up a handoff doc and orchestrate the bootstrap 5-step protocol so the user can verify state and approve continuation in one round-trip.

This skill is Claude-Code-specific. Other agents (Codex, Cursor, Gemini, GPT) follow the bootstrap block embedded in the doc itself — no skill needed on the receiving end.

## Always do this first

Before any action, **read `references/instructions.md`**. It contains:
- Path/slug resolution priority
- Doc shape validation (version marker, minimum sections)
- The bootstrap 5-step execution flow
- Env verification logic (branch, processes, dirty files, paths)
- Status presentation format
- Discrepancy handling (critical / warning / info)
- INDEX update on confirmation
- Completion marking (`done`) at end of session

`references/bootstrap.md` is also available — used as a reference when validating an incoming doc's shape.

## Universal rules

1. **Never auto-correct env mismatches.** The user should always see them.
2. **Never begin executing the next step from the doc's Section 3 until the user explicitly confirms.** The bootstrap block exists to defeat the "let me get started for you" failure mode — honor it.
3. **Respect verbatim-quoted constraints in Section 4** before each significant decision. Re-read them; do not paraphrase.
4. **Redact secrets** that may surface during env verification (running-process env vars, etc.).
5. **Output language follows the user's conversation language.**
6. **Update INDEX status to `resumed` only AFTER the user confirms** — not on load. The user might cancel.

## Related sub-skills

- `/handoff-write` to create a new handoff.
- `/handoff-list` to find available handoffs if the arg is ambiguous.
- `/handoff-archive` to clean up stale ones after resume.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [aploe](https://github.com/aploe)
- **Source:** [aploe/claude-handoff-skill](https://github.com/aploe/claude-handoff-skill)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-aploe-claude-handoff-skill-handoff-resume
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aploe
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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