handoff

A command that creates a short summary for continuing a coding task in another tool or model. The summary can point to a saved session-state file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving work between tools such as Claude and Cursor, or whenever another agent needs a compact continuation package.
Why use it?
It avoids replaying the entire conversation when switching tools and preserves the current goal, status, next step, and test information.

Command

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/aksoftcode/aicrew/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 501 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 $0.00012 $0.00501
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00050

Measured yesterday against content hash 9a3d6ccfead1, 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/commands/handoff.md · 87 lines

What it actually says

Default output: caveman/lean — terse by default. /normal or /lean off for verbose. See ~/Agents/agents/caveman.md.

/handoff

Overview

Switching tools mid-task (e.g. Claude → Cursor)? Three steps:

  1. Early in your session, name it: /session cursor my-task This sets the state file path: .ai/state/AI_STATE.cursor.my-task.md

  2. When ready to switch, run /handoff. You get a compact block:

    HANDOFF:
    Target: cursor
    State file: .ai/state/AI_STATE.cursor.my-task.md
    Goal: Add rate limiting to /api/auth endpoint
    Current status: Phase 3 design confirmed — ready to implement
    Next step: Run TDD cycle for RateLimitMiddleware
    Tests: not run yet
    
  3. In the new tool, paste the block or just say: Continue from .ai/state/AI_STATE.cursor.my-task.md

No chat replay. Each switch costs ~300 tokens instead of 15,000.

Generate a compact handoff package for switching tools/models without losing context.

Inputs

  • Current session state file:
    • .ai/state/AI_STATE.<tool>.<session>.md
  • Optional argument in $ARGUMENTS (target tool or note)

If the state file does not exist, build a compact handoff from current session facts.

Output format

Return this exact structure in markdown:

HANDOFF:

Target:
- [target tool/model or "any"]

State file:
- [.ai/state/AI_STATE.<tool>.<session>.md or "not written yet"]

Goal:
- ...

Current status:
- ...

Key constraints:
- ...

Relevant files:
- ...

Latest errors/logs:
- ...

Next step:
- ...

Tests:
- ran / not run (+ short note)

Risks/assumptions:
- ...

Rules

  • Keep it compact and copy/paste friendly.
  • Preserve technical strings verbatim (commands, paths, errors).
  • Do not invent facts. If unknown, write unknown.
  • If writing tools are available, update state file before printing handoff.
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. yesterday First seen · 87 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 9a3d6ccfead1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository AKSoftCode/aicrew (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 501 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.