How do I install claude-handoff?

Run npx skills add mattpocock/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.

Is claude-handoff maintained, and what licence does it use?

Its repository has 303,549 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the MIT licence.

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claude-handoff

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claude-handoff is an agent skill published by mattpocock, listed under building agents. It lives in the mattpocock/skills repository, which has 303,549 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-08.

Transfers the current conversation to a new background agent that takes over immediately.

by mattpocock · one of 39 skills in mattpocock/skills →

Install

skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads mattpocock/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.

npx skills add mattpocock/skills

Maintenance

Stars

303549

State

listed

Licence

MIT

From the repository

Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.

View on GitHub ↗2026-10-08

claude-handoff compared with similar skills

claude-handoff compared with other skills for the same job, by publisher, what it does, repository stars and last update
Skill	Publisher	What it does	Repo stars	Last update
claude-handoff (this page)	mattpocock	Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.	303,549	2026-10-22
context-engineering	addyosmani	Optimizes agent context setup. Use when starting a new session, when agent output quality degrades, when swit…	110,611	2026-10-13
using-agent-skills	addyosmani	Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or wo…	110,611	2026-10-13
agent-platform-inference	google	Connects to and performs inference with Google Cloud Agent Platform GenAI models, including First-Party Gemin…	21,580	2026-10-25
agent-platform-skill-registry	google	Interact with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry to create and search for available skills.…	21,580	2026-10-25
gemini-agents-api	google	Manages custom Agent resources on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Use when the user wants to programmatical…	21,580	2026-10-25
gemini-api	google	Use when the user asks about using Gemini in an enterprise environment or explicitly mentions Vertex AI, Goog…	21,580	2026-10-25

Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.

Common questions about claude-handoff

What does claude-handoff do?: Transfers the current conversation to a new background agent that takes over immediately.
How do I install claude-handoff?: Run npx skills add mattpocock/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
Who publishes claude-handoff?: mattpocock.
Is claude-handoff maintained, and what licence does it use?: Its repository has 303,549 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the MIT licence.

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