Externalise Handover Tasks

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Exports critical conversation details (pending tasks, completed work, bugs, uncertainties) into a structured .md file for seamless handover to another agent or teammate. Best used when you need to capture progress and user instructions clearly before switching context.

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DocumentationBeginner
706/2/2026
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This skill externalizes important parts of the current conversation into a Markdown file for handover to another colleague or agent.

Strengths

  • Produces a structured summary of tasks, accomplishments, bugs, and uncertainties
  • Captures exact commands and file paths for reproducibility
  • Clarifies user instructions for better context transfer

Limitations

  • Requires a conversation with sufficient content to be useful
  • Does not replace thorough documentation
  • May miss details not explicitly mentioned
When to use it

When you need to hand off work to another developer or agent after a dense session.

When not to use it

When the conversation lacks concrete actions or clear decisions to document.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score80/100

The skill instructs the AI to summarize conversation context into a Markdown file. It does not involve execution of system commands, network access, file deletion, or exfiltration of secrets. There are no destructive or risky operations.

No concerns found

Examples

Handover after debugging session
Externalise the main points of this conversation into a handover file. Include the bug we found, the commands run, and the next steps.
Task handoff to colleague
Create a handover summary with the tasks completed, file paths modified, and any uncertainties we discussed.

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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