handoff

handoff is a command for Claude Code from bestcow/dear-agent. It costs 23 tokens per session (198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that updates the project’s HANDOFF.md file with the current session’s work and rebuilds the workspace index when needed. HANDOFF.md is the record of the project’s current state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing project code or features, making structural changes, or updating project status and documentation.
Why use it?
It keeps continuation notes and workspace listings aligned with recent changes, reducing the chance that the next session starts with stale information.

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/bestcow/dear-agent/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestcow/dear-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 198 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 $0.00023 $0.00198
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00099
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash a91067f257fb, 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 4d 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/handoff.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

dear-agent 스킬의 "세션 종료" 절차를 지금 실행한다. 이 세션에서 수정한 각 프로젝트에 대해:

  1. HANDOFF.md 본문(마지막 작업 / 다음 할 일 / 막힌 것)을 이 세션 내용으로 갱신한다.
  2. frontmatter의 status · updated(오늘) · summary를 갱신한다.
  3. 굵직한 변경은 LOG.md에 한 줄 추가한다.
  4. 폴더 구조나 상태가 바뀌었으면 build-index(build-index.ps1 또는 python3 build-index.py)를 실행해 _INDEX.md·OVERVIEW.md를 재생성한다.
  5. 생성기 경고가 있으면 해결하고 결과를 보고한다.
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. 4d ago First seen · 12 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A a91067f257fb

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handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository bestcow/dear-agent (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 198 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 2026-08-30.