# On Call Handoff Patterns

> Domina los handoffs de turno de guardia con transferencia de contexto, procedimientos de escalado y documentación entre ingenieros.

Fuente: https://skillsagentes.com/skills/wshobson/agents/on-call-handoff-patterns
Markdown: https://skillsagentes.com/skills/wshobson/agents/on-call-handoff-patterns.md

Repositorio: https://github.com/wshobson/agents
Autor: wshobson
Licencia: MIT
Actualizado: hace 4 meses
Coste de contexto: 156 tok instalada, 937 tok al activarse, 2.5k tok con todos los archivos del bundle
Bundle: 2 archivos, 10 KB
Permisos que pide: ninguno declarado

## Instalación

Un skill son archivos markdown: los mismos archivos valen para cualquier agente y lo único que cambia es el directorio de destino, es decir la bandera `--agent`. Añade `-g` para instalarlo en todos los proyectos de la máquina.

```bash
# Claude Code
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent claude-code
# Cursor
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent cursor
# Codex
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent codex
# Gemini CLI
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent gemini
# Windsurf
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent windsurf
# Cline
npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill on-call-handoff-patterns --agent cline
```

## Qué hace

- Proporciona plantillas y estructura para documentos de handoff de guardia (incidentes activos, investigaciones, cambios recientes)
- Define la mecánica de tiempo para la transición entre turnos (overlap de 30 min)
- Ofrece soluciones de troubleshooting para handoffs incompletos, remotos o en medio de un incidente

## Cuándo usarla

- Transicionar responsabilidades de guardia entre ingenieros
- Escribir un resumen de turno que capture incidentes activos e investigaciones
- Hacer handoff en medio de un incidente para transferir el rol de incident commander
- Incorporar a un nuevo ingeniero a la rotación de guardia por primera vez

## Qué la activa

- "Ayúdame a escribir el resumen de handoff para el próximo turno de guardia"
- "Necesito transferir el rol de incident commander a otro ingeniero"
- "¿Cómo estructuro el onboarding de un nuevo ingeniero a la rotación on-call?"

## Antes de instalar

- Consultar references/details.md para las plantillas completas y ejemplos detallados.

## Archivos

- SKILL.md — 4 KB
- references/details.md — 6 KB

## SKILL.md

Reproducido tal cual desde wshobson/agents bajo MIT. Esta sección es el documento original y está en inglés.

# On-Call Handoff Patterns

Effective patterns for on-call shift transitions, ensuring continuity, context transfer, and reliable incident response across shifts.

## When to Use This Skill

- Transitioning on-call responsibilities
- Writing shift handoff summaries
- Documenting ongoing investigations
- Establishing on-call rotation procedures
- Improving handoff quality
- Onboarding new on-call engineers

## Core Concepts

### 1. Handoff Components

| Component                  | Purpose                 |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| **Active Incidents**       | What's currently broken |
| **Ongoing Investigations** | Issues being debugged   |
| **Recent Changes**         | Deployments, configs    |
| **Known Issues**           | Workarounds in place    |
| **Upcoming Events**        | Maintenance, releases   |

### 2. Handoff Timing

```
Recommended: 30 min overlap between shifts

Outgoing:
├── 15 min: Write handoff document
└── 15 min: Sync call with incoming

Incoming:
├── 15 min: Review handoff document
├── 15 min: Sync call with outgoing
└── 5 min: Verify alerting setup
```

## Templates and detailed worked examples

Full template library and detailed worked examples live in `references/details.md`. Read that file when you need the concrete templates.

## Troubleshooting

**Incoming engineer misses a critical issue because the handoff document was incomplete.**
Use the outgoing checklist as a gate: do not mark handoff complete until every section has at least one entry (or an explicit "none"). Make incomplete handoffs a blameless postmortem action item.

**A 30-minute sync call is not possible due to timezone gaps.**
Fall back to the async quick handoff template (Template 2). Supplement with a short Loom or voice memo walking through the watch list. Ensure the incoming engineer has a direct contact method if they have follow-up questions.

**The incoming engineer inherits a mid-incident and is immediately overwhelmed.**
Use the incident handoff template (Template 3) specifically. The outgoing engineer should remain available on Slack for 15 minutes after handoff, even if off-call, to answer clarifying questions.

**On-call handoff documents are inconsistently formatted across teams.**
Adopt the shift handoff template organization-wide and store completed handoffs in a shared location (wiki, Notion, Confluence). Link each handoff from the on-call schedule entry in PagerDuty.

**Incoming engineer cannot verify their alerting is working before the outgoing engineer logs off.**
Add a standard step: outgoing engineer fires a test alert and confirms incoming engineer receives it in PagerDuty and Slack before ending the overlap window.

## Related Skills

- [incident-runbook-templates](../incident-runbook-templates/SKILL.md) — Runbooks for the incidents that are handed over mid-response
- [postmortem-writing](../postmortem-writing/SKILL.md) — Turn resolved incidents from the shift into structured postmortems

## Dónde encaja

- Categoría: [DevOps e infraestructura](https://skillsagentes.com/categorias/devops-infraestructura.md) — Despliegues, contenedores, IaC y flujos de gestión de incidentes.
- Creador: [wshobson](https://skillsagentes.com/creators/wshobson.md) — 183 skills en el directorio
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