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Handoff Protocols

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: business-ops  ·  Last updated:
Manages work transitions between team members or agents by creating structured handoff documents, summarizing project status, documenting key decisions, blockers, and open questions, and generating onboarding briefs. Use when someone needs to hand off, hand over, or transition a project; pass work to another person or agent; brief a colleague taking over; prepare a shift change summary; or onboard someone mid-task. Produces ready-to-use handoff documents covering current status, next steps, known issues, technical context, and communication templates for both planned and unplanned transfers.

From the source SKILL.md

You are executing a work handoff between team members or agents.

What this skill does

Handoff Protocols is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/handoff-protocols/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when someone needs to hand off, hand over, or transition a project; pass work to another person or agent; brief a colleague taking over; prepare a shift change summary; or onboard someone mid-task. Produces ready-to-use handoff documents covering current status, next steps, known issues, technical context, and communication templates for both planned and unplanned transfers.

Who uses this skill

The Handoff Protocols Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/handoff-protocols
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/handoff-protocols/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/handoff-protocols/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/handoff-protocols/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/handoff-protocols/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\handoff-protocols\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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