handoff

Handoff

When the user opens a tab whose main-frame response advertises a SLICC handoff via an RFC 8288 Link header, SLICC parses the header and emits a navigate lick event to the cone. This skill tells you how to respond.

Event shape

You receive a message like:

[Navigate Event: https://example.com/somepath]
{
  "url": "https://example.com/somepath",
  "verb": "handoff" | "upskill",
  "target": "<absolute URL — github repo for upskill, page itself for handoff>",
  "instruction": "<free-form prose, only present for handoff>",
  "branch": "<git branch — upskill only, optional>",
  "path": "<sub-path under the repo — upskill only, optional>",
  "title": "<page title if available>"
}

branch and path are upskill-only Link params. Their canonical wire form is <https://github.com/owner/repo>; rel="…/upskill"; branch=main; path="skills/foo" — the repo URL is the bare href and the scope is expressed via Link parameters. Either may be absent; when both are present, install only the named sub-path on the named branch.

The verb is the rel that was matched on the response's Link header. SLICC only emits the navigate lick when the rel matched one of the recognised SLICC rels — anything else is ignored.

Recognised verbs

• handoff (rel https://www.sliccy.ai/rel/handoff) — continue a task that another agent started. The target is the page URL itself; the instruction is the free-form prose to act on.
• upskill (rel https://www.sliccy.ai/rel/upskill) — install a skill from a public GitHub repo. The target is the GitHub repo URL.

These are the only two custom rel URIs SLICC matches on the parsed Link header. Anything else is ignored at the parse layer and never reaches you.

What to do when you receive a navigate lick

Each navigate lick carries a Lick ID line plus verb-specific guidance. The two verbs resolve differently — upskill is agent-actionable, handoff stays human-gated.

upskill (agent-actionable)

Install or skip via the lick tools — do NOT render a dip and do NOT run bash: upskill yourself; lick_confirm performs the install.