Working resource
What should the next person need to know?
A small handoff checklist for carrying decisions and understanding forward with the work.
At Solsys, documenting decisions, configuration changes and implementation details was part of operational handoff. Working with agents brings the same question back in another setting: what will someone need when they return to this?
Here is a newly written checklist I would use to make that question concrete. It is a resource for this space, not a recovered employer template.
A useful handoff
Enough context to continue, inspect or question the work.
Purpose
What were we trying to make possible, and for whom?
The change
What changed? Where can the next person inspect it?
Decisions
What did we choose, why, and which alternatives mattered?
Responsibilities
Who owns each remaining step, dependency or approval?
Evidence
What was actually checked, with which result? Separate observation from expectation.
Open questions
What is uncertain, incomplete or known to fail?
Continue from here
What is the next useful action, and where are its boundaries?