LocalLLaMA Pushes AgentHandover’s Local Skill-Creation Workflow Into the Open-Agent Conversation

A LocalLLaMA post pushed AgentHandover into the open-agent tooling conversation by framing it as a way to create reusable Skills from ordinary desktop work instead of prompting from zero every time. The Reddit post reached 117 points and 30 comments while pitching a simple idea: watch repeated workflows on a Mac, extract the strategy behind them, and hand the result to MCP-compatible agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw.

The GitHub README shows that the project is aiming at much more than screen recording. AgentHandover describes an 11-stage pipeline that captures screenshots, runs local VLM annotation with Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.5, embeds text and optionally images into a vector knowledge base, clusters similar activity across sessions, and turns repeated behavior into a canonical Skill. It also says those Skills are not blindly auto-executed: they remain draft artifacts until the user reviews them and six readiness gates are satisfied, including evidence quality, freshness, trust, preflight checks, and execution history.

What makes the project relevant to the agent ecosystem is the handoff layer. AgentHandover ships an MCP server with tools for listing ready Skills, searching them semantically, fetching full bundles, and reporting execution results back so the Skills can improve over time. The README explicitly documents integrations for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw, and says the Codex path generates AGENTS.md with agent-ready Skills, guardrails, and voice guidance. In other words, the system is trying to bridge two hard problems at once: capturing tacit human workflow knowledge and packaging it into something agents can reliably reuse.

Why the Reddit thread mattered

The whole pipeline is designed to run locally on macOS, with Ollama-backed local models as the default path.

The project treats Skills as living artifacts with feedback loops, not static prompt templates.

The MCP interface makes the concept immediately legible to the current agent-tooling community.

The obvious open question is whether users will accept the level of observation required to extract workflows well. But that is also why the post resonated: it surfaces a real frontier in agent tooling. The bottleneck is increasingly not model availability, but how to capture durable human process knowledge without re-explaining everything in every session.