Handoff Prompt Follow writing-voice for prose tone. A handoff prompt is a cold execution brief. The recipient has never seen this codebase, this conversation, or this context. Everything they need to execute must be in the prompt itself. How It Differs from Specs | Spec ( ) | Handoff Prompt | | --- | --- | | Planning document, lives in | Communication artifact, lives in clipboard | | Tracks progress with checkboxes | Single-shot fire-and-forget | | Assumes the reader has repo access and can explore | Assumes the reader has zero context | | Leaves open questions for the implementer | Closes al…