Running Work Transitions Agent Skill

Six-phase playbook for running ownership transitions in either direction — receiving work from another team (initiative handoffs from…

Context cost
5.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 21.2 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Source-availablethe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Six-phase playbook for running ownership transitions in either direction — receiving work from another team (initiative handoffs from shepherds, frameworks from Platform, operational responsibilities from SRE), or originating a transition (handing off a built framework, transitioning a shepherded initiative, or moving operational responsibilities). Applies Bitwarden's Work Transition Playbook from whichever side a team is on.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md21.2 kB · preview
--- name: running-work-transitions allowed-tools: Skill, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__get_issue, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__get_issue_comments, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__get_issue_remote_links, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__search_issues, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__get_confluence_page, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__get_confluence_page_comments, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__search_confluence, mcp__plugin_bitwarden-atlassian-tools_bitwarden-atlassian__search_confluence_cql ---
7Bitwarden uses a [Work Transition Playbook](https://bitwarden.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EN/pages/2521038855) to move ownership of logic, patterns, tooling, or processes between teams. The most common trigger is Phase 4 → 5 of an initiative: a shepherd has finished Scoping & Commitment and a team is about to own implementation. But the playbook is general — Platform might hand a framework to a product team, SRE might hand over a runbook, another product team might transfer an integration they no longer own. Same playbook applies in any direction.
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9This skill covers both sides of a transition. It complements Skill(navigating-the-initiative-funnel), which covers the funnel mechanics more broadly.
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11## What "Transition" Actually Means
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13Read this line from the playbook and make sure both teams act on it: **a successful transition is not the moment documentation is shared or a meeting is held — it is the moment the receiving team is confidently operating independently with the transferred work**.
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15Everything in the six phases below is in service of that outcome. Sessions, documentation, and pulse checks are instruments, not the goal.
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17## Which Side?
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19- **Receiving side.** Another team is handing work over. The receiving team is typically represented by a named primary point of contact (the playbook calls this out explicitly — "typically a tech lead or senior engineer"). The job is to evaluate what's being handed over, prepare the team to absorb it, and make the support period efficient.
20- **Originating side.** A team is handing work to another team. This is the case when a team built a framework or pattern intended for adoption by other teams, when it has shepherded a smaller-scope initiative through to implementation by another team, or when operational responsibilities are shifting. The job is to prepare materials that make the receiving team self-sufficient and to support — not lead — once they've taken over.
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22The phases are the same on both sides; the responsibilities differ. Read both sections when participants will be on both sides at different points in the same effort (common when shepherding a single-team-adjacent initiative).
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24## The Six Phases, From the Receiving Side
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md3,138 words
Files1
LicenceSource-available
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈330
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
4,970
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
2.6%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 27% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

5.3k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It writes no files and reaches no network. All it changes is how the model reasons and writes.

What it asks for
Writes filesno
Network accessno

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 21.2 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md21.2 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The Source-available licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Running Work Transitions · 5.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/running-work-transitions/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/running-work-transitions" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/running-work-transitions ] || { mv .claude/skills/running-work-transitions "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/running-work-transitions" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/running-work-transitions"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add bitwarden/running-work-transitions

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/running-work-transitions/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/running-work-transitions/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/running-work-transitions" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/running-work-transitions ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/running-work-transitions "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/running-work-transitions" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/running-work-transitions" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/running-work-transitions/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
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Publishedno release date on file
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Referencebitwarden/running-work-transitions

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