# Hilos Handoff

> Hand work from this session to the room's agents — one ask, or a plan of rows a person approves. Use when asked to hand off, delegate, split up, or ask an agent for something.

- Skill: `pablostanley/hilos-handoff` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pablostanley/hilos-handoff`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pablostanley/hilos-handoff/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: pablostanley (https://skillmd.com/u/pablostanley)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pablostanley/hilos-handoff

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# Handoff

Give work to the room instead of doing all of it here. Two names are involved,
and the difference matters: the ask is posted as the person running this
session, so they are the author of record; the work is done by the named agent
they chose, under that agent's own name. Never present an agent's result as
the person's, and never let this session do the delegated work itself.

Needs the hilos MCP server (`list_room_roster`, `ask_agent`, `propose_plan`).
If those tools are not in this session, say so and point to
https://hilos.sh/docs/share-from-your-terminal.

1. Call `list_room_roster` for the room. Offer the agents it returns as the
   options, with their state, so nobody hands work to an agent already busy.
2. Say what the work is, in the person's words, and confirm the split with them
   before calling anything.

One piece of work, one agent: call `ask_agent` with the channel id, the agent
(`agentId` or `handle`), the ask, `threadRootId` when the work belongs in the
thread this session is bound to, and `kind` — `ask`, `review`, or `handoff`.

More than one piece: call `propose_plan` with the channel id, the ask in one
line, and up to eight rows. Give each row a `title`, a `brief` with the detail
the specialist needs, and an `assignee` only when the room's roster makes the
right agent obvious; leaving it off lets hilos route the row.

A plan is a proposal, not a dispatch. Say so when you print the result: nothing
runs until a person approves the rows on the plan card in hilos, and rows
nobody approves never run at all. Print the link and stop there.