Externalise Handover Tasks

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Externalise important conversation elements to a .md file for handover to colleagues or agents. Document next tasks, accomplishments, bugs, and uncertainties.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationBeginner
306/2/2026
Claude Code
#handover#conversation-summary#knowledge-transfer#documentation

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Our review

Creates a markdown file summarizing key parts of a conversation for handover to another colleague or agent.

Strengths

  • Captures tasks, accomplishments, bugs, and uncertainties in a structured format
  • Facilitates seamless knowledge transfer
  • Saves time by automating documentation of key conversation points

Limitations

  • Depends on the quality of conversation context
  • May miss nuances if not explicitly mentioned
  • Output file may require manual review for completeness
When to use it

Use when handing over a project to another developer or agent to ensure continuity.

When not to use it

Do not use for trivial tasks where handover is unnecessary, or when the conversation lacks substantive content.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score75/100

The skill only instructs to write a summary of conversation points to a markdown file. It does not involve any execution of system commands, network access, or modification of system state beyond file creation. No risks are present.

No concerns found

Examples

Handover after debugging session
Externalise the key parts of this conversation about the database connection issue into a handover markdown file.
Weekly project handover
Create a handover summary of the tasks accomplished this week, the bugs found, and the next steps.
Task handover to colleague
I need to hand over this project to a colleague. Please externalise the current conversation into a handover.md file with tasks completed and pending.

name: externalise-handover description: Externalise important parts of the current conversation into an .md file for handover.

Externalise / Handover tasks

Instructions

Externalise important parts of the current conversation into an .md file to hand over to another colleague or agent.

Focus on:

  • Tasks to do next.
  • What's been accomplished (exact commands run, inputs/args, outputs including file paths).
  • Bugs encountered.
  • Key areas of uncertainties.
  • User instructions and clarifications, touched up to be clearer.

Context: Use any additional context provided in the arguments.

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