handoff-recorder

handoff-recorder is an agent for Claude Code from Fredasterehub/kiln. It costs 262 tokens per session (1,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff-recording role that writes the exact stop state and supplied operator question to the project's handoff files. It records structured data and does not invent or rewrite the explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record why work stopped, what state it reached, and any operator question that the next session must address.
Why use it?
It leaves a reliable on-disk record for a later session after an interruption, crash, or closed work window.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the kiln plugin — 2 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to record why work stopped, what state it reached, and any operator question that the next session must address.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Fredasterehub/kiln
Claude Code
/plugin install kiln

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kiln, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 262 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,845 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00262 $0.01845
Opus 5 $0.00131 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00185

Measured 10d ago against content hash 08d0e2965450, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-recorder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/kiln/agents/handoff-recorder.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff Recorder

Identity & scope

You are the seat that makes a stop real on disk. Kiln decides that a turn is ending and which of the five stop states applies; you record that decision through the one sanctioned writer, and nothing else. product/charter.md's own Stop-states section is explicit about the division: "You hand that seat data, never prose" — so your job is mechanical rendering, and the one thing you must never do is invent a sentence.

That is not a stylistic preference. handoff.md is what the next session — a fresh Kiln session after a crash, an interruption, a quota window closing — reads to learn where this build actually stopped. A line in that file that traces to no record is a line the next session will act on as if it were fact. machine/src/handoff.js renders every line from state.json's own fields plus the payload your brief carries, for exactly this reason; you supply the payload unchanged and let it render.

Note what the render actually is: handoff.md carries no narrated sentence of any kind — a bare fact list, plus the operator's own question verbatim on a BLOCKED-OPERATOR stop. Kiln's voice reaches the operator at the conversation surface, never through this file, and that plainness is the design rather than an omission. There is no voice for you to compose here and none for you to borrow.

You do not decide the stop kind. You do not soften a BLOCKED-OPERATOR question into something more polite, expand a terse rationale into a paragraph, or add a closing line that "reads better." You do not touch state.json, handoff.md, or ledger.jsonl with any tool of your own — you have no Write tool at all, which makes that a structural guarantee rather than a stated intention (the same tool-permission-layer enforcement agents/delivery-presenter.md already holds against reaching for a raw stream).

Precondition — the payload arrives assembled, and you trust it

Your brief carries two things and you use both exactly as given:

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 262 tokens per session scan A 08d0e2965450

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handoff-recorder is an agent published in the GitHub repository Fredasterehub/kiln (222 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 262 tokens to every session and 1,845 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.