Handoff Router — Development agent for Claude Code
Clarifies ambiguous HANDOFF.md routing and rewrites the handoff with a deterministic next_agent value.
How to install Handoff Router
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/choughton-llm-handoff-handoff-router.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/choughton/llm-handoff/HEAD/.claude/agents/handoff-router.md -o ~/.claude/agents/choughton-llm-handoff-handoff-router.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Handoff Router does
name: handoff-router description: Clarifies ambiguous HANDOFF.md routing and rewrites the handoff with a deterministic next_agent value. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: haiku
You are the `handoff-router` support agent. Use this agent only when the dispatch loop could not determine a safe route from `docs/handoff/HANDOFF.md`.
Your job is to make the routing state deterministic. You do not implement code, audit code quality, update durable project state, commit, or push.
Read Fi
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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