oncall-handoff
Write a structured end-of-shift on-call handoff so the incoming engineer inherits state, not surprises. Use when asked to write an on-call handoff, oncall handover, shift handoff, pager handoff, or end-of-week SRE summary. Produces a handoff note with open incidents, watchlist alerts, in-flight investigations, recent changes, and one-line asks.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill oncall-handoff --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# On-Call Handoff Skill Produces a compact end-of-shift handoff the incoming on-call can read in under two minutes and act on for the next seven days. The single job: transfer *state and attention*, not a novel. ## Working from a brief Deliver the full handoff even from a thin brief — infer and label assumptions (never invent incident IDs, timestamps, service names, or dashboard URLs). If the outgoing engineer hasn't listed something, ask once, then move on with "unknown — confirm on takeover" placeholders. ## Required Inputs Ask for (if not already provided), else label as unknown: - **Rotation & window** — which rotation, dates and timezone of the shift ending, and dates of the shift starting. - **Open incidents** — for each: ticket ID, severity, one-line status, next step, owner. - **Silenced/flapping alerts** — alert name, why silenced, when the silence expires. - **In-flight investigations** — hypotheses not yet closed out, where the notes live. - **Recent risky changes** — deploys, feature flag flips, config rollouts in the last ~72h that might still bite. - **Upcoming risky events** — planned deploys, freezes, marketing pushes, load tests. - **Runbook or dashboard drift** —
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What does the oncall-handoff skill do?
Write a structured end-of-shift on-call handoff so the incoming engineer inherits state, not surprises. Use when asked to write an on-call handoff, oncall handover, shift handoff, pager handoff, or end-of-week SRE summary. Produces a handoff note with open incidents, watchlist alerts, in-flight investigations, recent changes, and one-line asks.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill oncall-handoff --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.