--- name: tobihagemann/create-handoff source: https://app.decimal.ai/s/tobihagemann-create-handoff@6/SKILL.md source_sha256: 4f794d4270ab --- # Create Handoff Write a session handoff file at `.turbo/handoff/-.md` so a fresh session can pick up where this one left off. ## Step 1: Resolve the Target Path Get today's date: `date +%Y-%m-%d`. Pick a slug for the current task: - Lowercase - Replace non-alphanumeric characters with hyphens - Collapse consecutive hyphens - Trim leading and trailing hyphens - Truncate to 40 characters at a word boundary If the work is anchored to an existing plan at `.turbo/plans/.md`, reuse that plan's slug verbatim. The user may pass an explicit slug or output path; honor it. The target path is `.turbo/handoff/-.md`. A generated slug takes `-2`, `-3`, and so on until the path is free. When the user supplied the slug or path and it already exists, use `request_user_input` to offer overwrite, a numeric suffix, or a different slug. When an open decision will outlive the rest of the session's state, still unresolved while the work around it is finished, give it its own handoff. Everything else stays in a single file. Slug the split handoff for that decision rather than appending a collision suffix, and write it to stand alone. State the chosen path before continuing. ## Step 2: Gather Session State Run `git status --short` to see uncommitted changes in the working tree. Survey the conversation context for: - **Current task**: what is being worked on, in one or two sentences - **Workflow status**: where in the workflow this session is (drafting, refining iteration N, applying findings, implementing step M of K, investigating, blocked on Q, etc.) - **Active artifact**: path to the plan or other file at the center of the work, if one exists - **Open decisions**: questions raised but not resolved, choices the user is still weighing, escalations awaiting input - **In-flight changes**: staged or unstaged edits that are not yet committed; what each change is doing and what is missing - **Closed avenues**: approaches that were built or tested and then abandoned, with the observed evidence that ruled them out - **Next step**: the first concrete action the new session should take Read `.turbo/improvements.md` if it exists and note any entry this handoff takes over. When no entry clearly matches, leave the backlog alone. When something is genuinely unclear and would leave a gap in the handoff, use `request_user_input` to resolve it. Default to inferring quietly when the conversation makes the answer clear. ## Step 3: Write the Handoff File Create `.turbo/handoff/` if it does not exist. Write the file at the path picked in Step 1. Lead with `# Handoff: `. Cover the items gathered in Step 2 in whatever structure fits the session — drafting, refining, implementing, and investigating sessions each have different shapes and don't all map to the same headings. Close with a clear statement of the next concrete action so the new session knows exactly what to do first. Keep it dense. Omit anything that has no real content. When this handoff splits an open decision out of an existing one, add a line to that existing handoff pointing at the new path, and remove the content the new file now carries. ## Step 4: Confirm Once the handoff file exists, delete any `.turbo/improvements.md` entry it takes over, as noted in Step 2. Delete the file if no entries remain. Tell the user where the handoff was written, name any backlog entry deleted and any existing handoff edited to point at a split, and quote the next-step statement so the path forward is visible at a glance. Then call `update_plan` to mark this step completed and continue with the next step of the active workflow.