How do I install 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 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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handoff

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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.

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.

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

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.

View on GitHub ↗2026-10-08

handoff compared with similar skills

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
handoff (this page)	mattpocock	Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.	303,549	2026-10-22
claude-handoff(same repository)	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

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 handoff

What does handoff do?: Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
How do I install 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 handoff?: mattpocock.
Is 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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