create-task-from-handoff

A command that resumes a paused planning discussion, called a handoff, and turns its remaining decisions into a test-driven task. Test-driven means defining tests as part of planning and implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a separate idea was set aside during another planning session and you are ready to analyze it, plan its work, define tests, and create the task document.
Why use it?
It preserves decisions already made in the earlier discussion, so you do not have to restart the conversation. It also connects a side topic back to the normal task-planning process.

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/ayoubben18/ab-method/create-task-from-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ayoubben18/ab-method

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 395 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 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 91bd1bb35a58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-task-from-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/create-task-from-handoff.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Create Task From Handoff

Description

Resume a handoff — a side-topic that was captured mid-grill via the handoff skill — and turn it into a test-driven task. The bridge between two grilling sessions.

Usage

/create-task-from-handoff [handoff-slug]

Pass a slug to resume a specific handoff from docs/handoffs/. Omit it to pick from the pending list.

Behavior

Loads and executes the create-task-from-handoff workflow from .ab-method/core/create-task-from-handoff.md

This workflow will:

  1. Locate the handoff (by slug, or by listing docs/handoffs/)
  2. Absorb its context — treat everything it already settled as given
  3. Continue the grill via grill-with-docs, driving only the branches the handoff left open
  4. Hand off to the standard create-task flow (project analysis → missions → tdd)
  5. Retire the handoff once the task document exists

Workflow Details

  • A handoff is a paused grill — resume it, don't restart it
  • Reuses create-task wholesale from project analysis onward
  • Always grill, always TDD — same guarantees as /create-task

How handoffs get created

During any grilling session, when a tangent emerges that deserves its own task, invoke the handoff skill to capture it under docs/handoffs/ — without derailing the current grill. Resume it later with this command.

Examples

/create-task-from-handoff rate-limit-redis-vs-token-bucket
# Resumes that specific handoff and grills the open branches

/create-task-from-handoff
# Lists pending handoffs and asks which to resume

Alternative Usage

/ab-master create-task-from-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. 2d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 91bd1bb35a58

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create-task-from-handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository ayoubben18/ab-method (187 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 395 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 2026-08-30.