Use when work needs to be handed off to another agent or another human. Produce a continuation-ready brief with the objective, completed work, assumptions, unresolved issues, and next action instead of a generic summary. Good triggers include "prepare a handoff", "make this resumable", and "summarize this for another agent".
92
100%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
89%
1.41xAverage score across 8 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
{
"context": "The agent must produce a handoff for a partially-built data pipeline. This scenario tests whether the agent keeps the document minimal and transfer-focused rather than comprehensive, and whether it favours surfacing unresolved questions over writing a narrative recap of what was built.",
"type": "weighted_checklist",
"checklist": [
{
"name": "No long prose paragraphs",
"description": "The handoff document does NOT contain multi-sentence prose paragraphs explaining how things work; information is in bullet points or short statements.",
"max_score": 12
},
{
"name": "Critical References minimal",
"description": "The Critical References section does NOT include every file and URL from the task; it contains only the subset needed for the receiver to start immediately.",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Unresolved prioritised",
"description": "The Unresolved section is present and contains at least both open decisions (deduplication approach and schema sign-off), not just a list of remaining tasks.",
"max_score": 12
},
{
"name": "Completed section is factual",
"description": "The Completed section lists what is done without re-explaining implementation details or how things work.",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Objective section present",
"description": "The document has an Objective section that states the end goal of the pipeline.",
"max_score": 7
},
{
"name": "Next Action is singular and concrete",
"description": "The Next Action section names one specific action to take first (not a list of all remaining work).",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Assumptions section present",
"description": "The document has an Assumptions section listing at least one assumption (e.g. production volume, schema state).",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "All six sections present",
"description": "The document includes all six prescribed sections: Objective, Completed, Assumptions, Unresolved, Next Action, Critical References.",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Document is concise",
"description": "The entire handoff document is shorter than 400 words — the brevity reflects transfer-optimization, not completeness.",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Critical References section non-empty",
"description": "The Critical References section lists at least one file path, command, or URL.",
"max_score": 7
},
{
"name": "No completeness narration",
"description": "The document does NOT contain a section or paragraph that summarises the full scope of all work still to be done (i.e., does not try to be a complete project plan).",
"max_score": 8
}
]
}evals
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scenario-2
scenario-3
scenario-4
scenario-5
scenario-6
scenario-7
scenario-8
skills
compact-handoff