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On-Call Handoff

15-minute weekly ritual. Written down, always — verbal handoffs get lost. The outgoing engineer runs it. The incoming engineer asks questions.

# On-Call Handoff — Week of [Date]

**Outgoing:** [Name]
**Incoming:** [Name]

## Summary of the week
[One or two sentences: was it quiet, busy, brutal? What was the shape?]

## Pages received
| Time | Alert | Actionable? | Resolution |
|------|-------|-------------|------------|
|      |       |             |            |

## Open incidents
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- 

## Recurring noise (candidates to fix or tune)
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- 

## Anything the next person should know
- (A deploy going out this week that might be risky)
- (A customer with active issues)
- (A system in a weird state)

## Watch items
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