handoff

handoff is a command for coding agents from atuljha23/holocron. It costs 38 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff command that records completed work, unfinished threads, decisions, and next steps in a dated Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a coding session or before handing work to someone else. It gathers Git status, recent commits, open questions, and follow-up verification into one document.
Why use it?
It prevents the next session or teammate from having to reconstruct progress from repository history and conversation details. It also records checks that should be run next.

Command

Part of the holocron plugin — 11 skills, 24 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

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/atuljha23/holocron/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atuljha23/holocron

Or install holocron, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 24 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 366 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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 77233c4e4669, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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.

commands/handoff.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

/holocron:handoff

Produce a handoff doc so the next session (you-in-30-minutes, or a teammate) can pick up without archaeology.

Gather

  • git status and git diff --stat (uncommitted work)
  • git log --oneline -20 (what was committed this session)
  • Open threads from the conversation: unresolved questions, deferred work, things you decided not to do and why

Write

Path: .holocron/handoff-<YYYY-MM-DD>-<short-slug>.md (create the .holocron dir if missing).

Template:

# Handoff — <YYYY-MM-DD> <short title>

## What was done
- <bulleted list, one line each, with commit SHAs where applicable>

## What's in flight
- <file>:<what's partial>

## What's open (pick up next)
- <item>: <why it's open, first step to unblock>

## Decisions made
- <decision>: <reason>

## Non-decisions (deferred)
- <thing>: <why we didn't touch it>

## Verification to run on next pickup
- <command or check>

Keep it under 400 words. After writing, touch ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:-~/.holocron}/sessions/${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}/handoff-done.flag so the pre-push hook stops nagging.

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. 5d ago First seen · 45 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 77233c4e4669

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handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository atuljha23/holocron (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.