Handoff
Create or update a durable project handoff for the next AI agent/session. Use when ending a coding/research session, switching agents, compressing context, or preparing another Claude/ChatGPT/Codex session to continue the work.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-dgilford-ai-science-toolkit-handoff ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
Create or update .ai/HANDOFF.md so the next agent can resume without rereading this conversation.
Current repo state
```! git status --short 2>/dev/null || echo "(not a git repo)"
```!
git log --oneline -12 2>/dev/null || echo "(no git log)"```! git diff --stat HEAD 2>/dev/null | head -30 || echo "(no diff)"
## Before writing
Read these if they exist: `.ai/HANDOFF.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`. Scan recently modified files for TODO/FIXME markers. Do not invent results for commands that were not run.
Do not duplicate content already captured in durable artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs, CLAUDE.md). Reference them by path or URL and summarize only what the next agent needs to act. Redact anything sensitive — API keys, tokens, passwords, PII — even though `.ai/` is gitignored.
## Write `.ai/HANDOFF.md`
Create `.ai/` if missing. Append `.ai/` to `.gitignore` if not already present.
Use only the sections that have real content. Skip empty ones.
## Objective
## Next actions
## State
## Decisions
## Scientific context
## Pitfalls
## Open questions
Preserve useful prior content. Remove stale or superseded details. Distinguish facts, assumptions, and recommendations explicitly.
Ask me at most one question, only if it would materially improve the handoff.
## Ship a worklog entry
After `.ai/HANDOFF.md` is written, run the `worklog` skill to capture this session
to its three targets (local `.ai/` mirror, remote server cache, Notion weekly
page). Pass it the session summary and next actions you wrote above so it does not
re-derive them. `worklog` is best-effort by design — it must never block or fail
the handoff.
## Finally
Run the `evolve-claude-md` skill to promote any durable session knowledge into `CLAUDE.md`.
## Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- **Author:** [dgilford](https://github.com/dgilford)
- **Source:** [dgilford/ai-science-toolkit](https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit)
- **License:** MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.