paseo-handoff

Handoff Skill

Transfer the current task — context, decisions, failed attempts, constraints — to a fresh agent. The receiving agent starts with zero context, so the handoff prompt must be a self-contained briefing.

User's arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Prerequisites

Read the paseo skill. Before choosing a provider, read ~/.paseo/orchestration-preferences.json unless the user explicitly named a provider in this request. Do not create the receiving agent until you have read it.

Parsing arguments

1. Provider — explicit user request first; otherwise resolve from impl preference (or ui if the task is styling-only).
2. Worktree — "in a worktree" / "worktree" → create a worktree via Paseo with a short branch name derived from the task, based on the current branch.
3. Task description — anything else the user said.

The handoff prompt

The receiving agent has zero context. Include:

## Task
[Imperative description.]

## Context
[Why this task exists, required context.]

## Relevant files
- `path/to/file.ts` — [what it is and why it matters]

## Current state
[What's done, what works, what doesn't.]

## What was tried
- [Approach] — [why it failed or was abandoned]

## Decisions
- [Decision — rationale]

## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] [Criterion]

## Constraints
- [Must-not / must-preserve]

Preserve task semantics. Investigate-only → "DO NOT edit files." Fix → "implement the fix." Refactor → "refactor, not rewrite." Carry the user's exact intent.

Launch

Create the agent via Paseo with a [Handoff] <task> title, the briefing as initial prompt, and relationship: { kind: "detached" }.

Use workspace for placement:

• No worktree: workspace: { kind: "current" }.
• Worktree: workspace: { kind: "create", source: { kind: "worktree", target: { kind: "branch-off", worktreeSlug: "<short-task-slug>", branchName: "fix/<short-task-slug>" } } }.
• Existing worktree already created by create_worktree: workspace: { kind: "existing", workspaceId: "<returned-workspace-id>" }.

Do not use workspace: { kind: "current", cwd: "<worktreePath>" } to place a handoff in a worktree; that keeps the agent in the caller's workspace with only a different runtime cwd.

Leave notifyOnFinish omitted unless the user explicitly wants no callback.

Handoff agents are siblings/root agents, not your subagents. They must survive you being archived and must not appear in your subagent track.

Don't wait by default — the user decides whether to follow along or move on. Tell them the agent ID and how to follow along (the paseo skill explains).