handoff-prompt
Installation
SKILL.md
Handoff Prompt
Follow writing-voice for prose tone.
A handoff prompt is a cold execution brief. The recipient has never seen this codebase, this conversation, or this context. Everything they need to execute must be in the prompt itself.
How It Differs from Specs
Spec (specification-writing) |
Handoff Prompt |
|---|---|
Planning document, lives in specs/*.md |
Communication artifact, lives in clipboard |
| Tracks progress with checkboxes | Single-shot fire-and-forget |
| Assumes the reader has repo access and can explore | Assumes the reader has zero context |
| Leaves open questions for the implementer | Closes all questions: the recipient shouldn't need to ask |
| Iterative: you come back and update it | One shot: you won't get to clarify |
A spec says "here's the plan." A handoff prompt says "here's everything you need to do it right now."