Handoff Write — Communication skill for Claude Code
Save the transcript, write or update HANDOFF.md, and print the prompt for the next chat.
How to install Handoff Write
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/calyx-engineering-arc-handoff-write/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/calyx-engineering-arc-handoff-write && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Calyx-Engineering/arc/HEAD/commands/handoff-write.md -o ~/.claude/skills/calyx-engineering-arc-handoff-write/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Handoff Write does
description: Save the transcript, write or update HANDOFF.md, and print the prompt for the next chat
Invoke the `handoff` skill and take the writing path.
**This command holds no rule of its own.** The skill carries what a handoff holds, the fixed order — save the transcript, then write the file, then give the prompt — and what belongs in the committed record instead of here. A rule that lives here instead is one an opening that reaches the skill by wording — *"write the handoff"*, *"g
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