Prepare a handoff summary

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Prepare a handoff summary for a future session by reviewing Git changes, modified files, and pipeline status.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationBeginner
2708/13/2026
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#handoff#session-summary#git-log#collaboration

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Our review

This skill prepares a handoff summary for a co-author or future session by reviewing git history, modified files, and pipeline status, then writing it to a dated file.

Strengths

  • Automates gathering of key information (git log, changed files, pipeline status)
  • Produces a structured, timestamped document under session_logs/
  • Improves session continuity by capturing context and open questions

Limitations

  • Relies on the quality and completeness of the git history
  • Does not capture implicit context absent from code changes
  • Requires access to a /status command for pipeline state
When to use it

At the end of a work session or before a handoff, to summarize changes, regenerated outputs, and outstanding questions.

When not to use it

For quick informal notes without version control or when no pipeline status is available.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score82/100

The skill performs read-only operations (git log, file listing, pipeline status) and writes a markdown summary to a local file. There are no destructive commands, no exfiltration, and no obfuscated payloads. The only side effect is creating a handoff document, which is benign.

No concerns found

Examples

Create session handoff
Prepare a handoff summary for my next session. Check the git log since the last handoff, note recent file changes, and run /status. Save it to session_logs.
Summarize weekly changes
Generate a co-author summary of what changed in the last 7 days, including regenerated outputs and open questions. Write it to a handoff file.
Log for collaboration
Create a handoff document for my collaborator covering recent commits, modified files, pipeline status, and items to review.

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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