handover

A command that creates a HANDOVER.md file describing the current coding session, including completed work, remaining tasks, decisions, issues, and important files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a session or before handing a project to someone else. It records Git status, changes, unfinished work, and suggested next steps.
Why use it?
It gives another developer or a new session enough context to continue work without reconstructing what happened.

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/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/handover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit
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 476 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 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 30c3377682dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handover 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.

commands/handover.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handover - Structured Session Handover

Generate a structured handover document for seamless session continuation.

Instructions

Create a handover document that captures the complete state of the current work session. This enables a fresh Claude Code session (or a different developer) to continue exactly where you left off.

Generate HANDOVER.md

Create HANDOVER.md in the project root with the following structure:

# Session Handover
## Generated: [ISO 8601 timestamp]

## Current State
- **Branch**: [current git branch]
- **Last Commit**: [hash + message]
- **Uncommitted Changes**: [list of modified/added files]

## What Was Done
[Numbered list of completed actions in this session]

## What Remains
[Checklist of remaining tasks, in order of priority]
- [ ] Task 1
- [ ] Task 2

## Key Decisions Made
[Important decisions and their rationale]

## Known Issues / Blockers
[Any issues discovered but not resolved]

## Context Files
[List of files that the next session should read first]
- path/to/critical-file-1
- path/to/critical-file-2

## Recommended Next Steps
1. Start a fresh session: `claude`
2. Read this handover: "Read HANDOVER.md and continue from where the previous session left off"
3. [Specific first action]

Rules

  • Include actual git state (branch, last commit, uncommitted changes)
  • Be specific about what was completed vs what remains
  • List files in order of importance for context loading
  • After generating, suggest running /compact or starting a new session
  • The handover document should be self-contained - readable without any prior context

Session Naming Convention

After creating the handover document, suggest renaming the session for easy retrieval:

/rename [feature-name: current-status]

Naming patterns:

  • [auth-refactor: plan-approved] -- feature + status
  • [bug-123: investigating] -- issue number + phase
  • [sprint-12: day-3-reviews] -- sprint + day

This enables targeted /resume later:

claude --resume  # shows recent sessions with names

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

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 · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 30c3377682dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handover is a command published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (147 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 476 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.