Prepare a handoff summary

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Review Git logs, recent file changes, and pipeline status to produce a plain-language summary of changes and open questions, then write to a handoff file.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
7/24/2026
Claude Code
#handoff#session-summary#git-log#project-status

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Automated summary

This skill prepares a session or handoff summary by reviewing Git logs, recent file changes, and pipeline status, then produces a structured document.

Strengths

  • Automates creation of comprehensive handoff documents
  • Leverages Git history and pipeline status for reliable data
  • Generates a timestamped file that is easy to locate

Limitations

  • Depends on the quality of commit messages
  • Only captures versioned changes, not unrecorded discussions
  • Works only if the /status command is available
When to use it

Use this skill before a long break, a contributor handoff, or to document project progress.

When not to use it

Do not use it for informal updates or when the Git history is too large without prior filtering.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill only instructs to review version control logs, modified files, and pipeline status, then generate a plain-language summary written locally to a session_logs directory. There are no destructive actions, network calls, or data exfiltration.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Weekly handoff summary
Prepare a session handoff summary for the last 7 days, including git log and pipeline status.
Post-PR handoff
After merging PR #42, create a handoff summary focusing on changes in the src/ and docs/ directories.

Prepare a co-author or future-session summary. Review: (1) Git log since the last handoff (or last 7 days if no prior handoff). (2) Any files modified recently. (3) Current pipeline status (run /status internally). Produce a plain-language summary covering: what changed, what outputs were regenerated, what to review, open questions. Write to session_logs/YYYY-MM-DD_handoff.md (create session_logs/ if needed).

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