Signal Source Registry Handoff (Handoff)

Signal Source Registry Handoff (Handoff)

1. 01

   Freeze the source list at the moment of handoff and version it

   Export every feed, page, keyword set, and monitored account into a dated registry file. Any source added after this point gets logged as a change request, not slipped in silently.

2. 02

   Attach a one-line rationale to each source naming the client decision it informs

   A competitor pricing page monitored through Visualping maps to a quarterly positioning decision; a founder podcast digest from Recordal maps to an executive thought-leadership brief. Sources with no mapped decision get cut before the file moves.

3. 03

   Document the alert routing for each source, including who receives it and where it lands

   Record the destination channel (Slack, Teams, email digest, webhook) and the named owner on the receiving team. Unowned routes are the most common cause of a signal dying in an inbox.

4. 04

   Record the noise controls already tuned on each source

   Note importance filters, deduplication thresholds, and mute rules. A deduplicating API like Scoopkit that collapses near-duplicate headlines into one event record behaves very differently from a raw feed, and the receiving team needs to know which they inherited.

5. 05

   List known blind spots and the sources deliberately excluded

   State which platforms, languages, or regions the registry does not cover and why. This prevents the next owner from assuming full coverage and over-claiming in a client readout.

6. 06

   Walk the receiving team through one live signal end to end

   Pick a real item from the past week, trace it from source to alert to the client-facing note it produced, and let the new owner reproduce the path themselves before sign-off.

7. 07

   Set the review date and the retirement rule for stale sources

   Agree a 60 or 90 day checkpoint and a rule for dropping sources that produced zero actioned signals in the prior cycle. Retainer scope drifts when the registry grows without pruning.