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Chapter 19 of 35
Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.
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Write a handoff summary of the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Instead of saving it, launch a background agent seeded with the summary as its prompt: claude --bg --name "<descriptive name>" "<handoff summary>". It starts in the current working directory and returns immediately; the user manages it with claude agents.
Always pass -n/--name with a descriptive name (e.g. --name "Fix login bug") — it sets the display name shown in the job list, session picker, and terminal title.
Include a “suggested skills” section in the summary, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.
Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.
Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information — the summary becomes the agent’s prompt.
If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the summary accordingly.
Install this repository
npx skills add mattpocock/skills/plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skillsSkills install per repository, not per chapter — the CLI has no documented per-skill form, so we do not print one.
main, last pushed 7 August 2026.SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 4 distinct layouts observed: skills/engineering/*/SKILL.md, skills/in-progress/*/SKILL.md, skills/misc/*/SKILL.md, skills/productivity/*/SKILL.md..claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Matt Pocock, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree./mattpocock/skills.md, and each chapter at its own .md URL.1 file · 141 B
Everything this skill ships beside its prose. All of it is set here, as a subchapter of chapter 19.
Everything else published alongside the skill.