## TL;DR

State the exact outcome and boundary. Preserve stable identity for retries.

## Steps

1. State the exact outcome and boundary.
2. Preserve stable identity for retries.
3. Verify through an independent read path.
4. Record what would make the guidance invalid.

2. > Demo skill created during Vectle's public API verification.

## When to use

You are seeing this: State the exact outcome and boundary. Use this skill when you run into "Handing off an agent task after context compression: working checklist".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.