Clean Handoff
Compacts a long session into a handoff note for the next agent.
What it does
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip clean-handoff.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive clean-handoff.zip -DestinationPath $HOME\.claude\skills- Start a new Claude Code session so it sees the skill.
- Ask in plain words, for example: "Use Clean Handoff on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the clean-handoff folder if your computer added an extra folder.
- In Claude.ai, open Settings, then Capabilities, and upload it under Skills.
- Turn the skill on and ask Claude to use it.
Clean Handoff uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the clean-handoff folder into that agent's skills folder, for example .cursor/skills/ or .github/skills/ in your project.
What's inside
In the download: agents/openai.yaml, LICENSE, NOTICE.md, SKILL.md
Credit and license
Clean Handoff is a renamed, packaged copy of handoff by Matt Pocock (github.com/mattpocock/skills), used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.
Questions
Does Clean Handoff work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the clean-handoff folder as a zip in Settings under Capabilities. It also works in other agents that support Agent Skills, like Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot.
What do I get?
A zip with the clean-handoff folder: its SKILL.md (613 words) and its license files. It comes inside the Engineering Workflow Pack.
Who made Clean Handoff?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of handoff by Matt Pocock, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.