What this skill does

Handoff summarises a working conversation in a document that lets another agent or a new session continue it. It records the goal, decisions, progress and outstanding work, with references to existing files rather than duplicating all the documentation. The procedure includes removing sensitive information from the summary.

It helps when a task spans several sessions or changes hands. A good handover distinguishes what has been checked from what remains a hypothesis. The AI employee organises the information; a person can review it before sharing and correct anything that affects the task's priority or scope.

When it can help

  • Resume research without reconstructing the entire conversation.
  • Hand a task to another owner with enough context.
  • Preserve project decisions and next steps.

A task to get started

Prepare a handover document for this project: goal, approved decisions, relevant files, completed checks and three outstanding steps. Omit credentials and unnecessary personal information.

What you need

  • Access to the context and documents that may be shared.
  • An appropriate place to save the summary.

Limits and result review

  • A summary can miss nuance; original references let readers verify it.
  • The document does not automatically transfer accounts, permissions or tool access.

How to add it to your employee in Hub Bot

Hub Bot's library lets you review and add skills from public GitHub repositories. You need an account and permission to manage team skills.

  1. Sign in to Hub Bot and open Skills library, or type /skills in chat.
  2. Find handoff and check the author: mattpocock.
  3. Open the details and review the version, requirements and original content.
  4. Choose the permitted scope—company, department or employees—and add the skill.
  5. Check the employee's tools and connections before assigning work. Review the first result.
Use in Hub Bot ↗

Account required. Select and review the skill in the library.

A skill provides a procedure. Each employee's permissions, approvals and connections still determine available actions. Adding it does not automatically install software or execute the author's scripts.

Sources and documentation

An iabot editorial explanation based on original documentation. Authorship remains with mattpocock. This guide is not a Hub compatibility test and does not distribute a translation of the author’s code.

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