handoff

A command for handing a coding session to another agent through the aide-handoff workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating a session handoff without writing the handoff file yourself.
Why use it?
It keeps the handoff rules, gathered context, and safety limits in one place instead of relying on a short checklist.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/aidemd-mcp/server/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidemd-mcp/server

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 210 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash 676a3eca5e25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/aide/handoff.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

/aide:handoff — Session Handoff

Invoke the aide-handoff skill via the Skill tool — that is your only valid response to /aide:handoff.

Skill(skill="aide-handoff", args="<the user's full request, verbatim>")

The aide-handoff skill is the source of truth for the handoff operation. It carries:

  • The CREATE vs UPDATE detection logic
  • The content-gathering checklist (what the orchestrator must supply in the delegation prompt)
  • The delegation contract to the aide-spec-writer agent in session.aide mode
  • The hard constraints (no self-writes, no invented content, no deletion)

You MUST invoke the skill — do not attempt to handle /aide:handoff from this file alone. Skipping the skill means writing session.aide from a thin command-file checklist that omits the load-bearing constraints, which means drifting from the methodology.

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. 2d ago First seen · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 676a3eca5e25

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository aidemd-mcp/server (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 210 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.