Agent Skill
Queue Handoff skill
queue-handoffmvschwarz/openrigpackages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig-core/skills/queue-handoff/SKILL.md
Use when ending a turn, finishing a slice, blocked on another agent's work, or escalating to a human — durable work handoff via queue items so the system keeps moving across compactions, missed messages, and interruptions. Covers the hot-potato terminal-turn-rule (active work ends by passing the ball, not by going idle), default-nudge semantics, and when `--no-nudge` is appropriate for intentional cold park or human gate.
always on
94 tokname + description
once used
2,828 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
0
repo stars
8.1kGitHub
Install the Queue Handoff skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig --skill queue-handoff
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig.git /tmp/openrig mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/openrig/packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig-core/skills/queue-handoff ~/.claude/skills/queue-handoff
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 94 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 2,828 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, queue-handoff costs about 14× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 94 skills from mvschwarz/openrig would load 6,757 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Queue Handoff
- Use this when
- Don't use this when
- The hot-potato terminal-turn-rule
- Default-nudge semantics (the syntax footgun)
- Every queue row
- Queue-body hygiene (token + parse safety)
- Failure modes (6; verbatim)
- Durable handoff field shape
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