Write Handoff Report
SkillDev toolsWrites a session handoff report to handoffs/ with project state, work done, decisions, and next steps. Use at session end or after significant work.
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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Write Handoff Report skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Write a session handoff report to preserve context across sessions.
Steps
- Check the most recent file in
handoffs/to understand prior state - Create a new file in
handoffs/named with today's date and time:YYYYMMDD_HHMM.md - Include these sections:
- Project State — one paragraph summarizing current status
- Work Completed — bullet list of what was done this session with key results
- Decisions Made — any choices and their rationale
- Open Issues — blockers or unresolved items
- Next Steps — concrete actions for the next session
- Verify the file was saved and summarize next steps to the user
Signals
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- Sep 2026
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handoff-brycewang-stanford- Source
- github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills