Handling Unknowns with Handoff and Teach
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-07-13
A practical guide on what to do when you are "grilled" with questions you can't answer:
- Explicitly admit you don't know the answer in the current grilling session;
- Use /handoff to transfer the task to a teaching agent;
- Go to your teaching workspace and use the /teach skill to open the handoff document and learn;
- Once finished, return to the original session and continue.
The benefits of this approach: the current conversation stays clean, learning progress is recorded in the /teach skill, and being "stumped on the spot" is transformed into a trackable, resumable workflow.
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