Create Handoff Prompt

Create a prompt the user can paste into another task without requiring access to this conversation.

This is an explicit-invocation workflow. Invoke it as $create-handoff-prompt, optionally followed by the topic or outcome to transfer.

Before composing, read ../../references/handoff-composition.md completely and apply its shared contract.

Select The Scope

• Follow an explicit focus supplied with the invocation.
• If that focus is absent from the conversation or lacks enough source context for an accurate handoff, ask one concise missing-context question and stop.
• With no focus, use the active topic only when it is unambiguous.
• If multiple topics or referents are plausible, ask one concise scope question and stop.
• Exclude unselected topics instead of compressing the whole conversation.

Stay Within The Conversation

Treat the selected conversation as the default source. This is not a research or task-management skill.

• Inspect only artifacts explicitly referenced in the conversation, and only when needed for accuracy.
• Do not automatically explore repositories, browse the web, run tests, inspect tasks, search for a destination, send messages, or navigate between tasks.
• Do not claim the receiving task can see this conversation.
• Do not identify a destination. The user chooses it by pasting the result.

Compose And Output

Compose a self-contained payload under the shared contract. After the payload is complete, let M be the longest run of consecutive backticks anywhere in it (0 when none), and set the outer fence length to N = max(4, M + 1).

Return exactly one outer fenced code block:

1. Start at column 1 with exactly N backticks followed immediately by markdown and nothing else.
2. Put the unchanged payload on the following lines. Preserve every internal backtick or tilde fence literally.
3. Close on the line after the payload with exactly N backticks and nothing else.

Use backticks, never tildes, for the outer fence. Write nothing outside it. Do not save a file or write to the clipboard.

Before returning, silently verify scope, independent readability, decision and status distinctions, rationale, authority boundaries, redaction, and the dynamic outer-fence rule.