Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dsifry/metaswarm. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dsifry/metaswarm/main/.claude/commands/handoff.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarmWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/dsifry/metaswarm/handoff)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/dsifry/metaswarm/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/dsifry/metaswarm/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/dsifry/metaswarm/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/dsifry/metaswarm/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00033 | $0.00572 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00229 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00114 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00057 |
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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Handoff
Analyze the current session and everything we are working on, then write a single comprehensive markdown document containing all the context, files, specs, designs, plans, and decisions a fresh agent with no prior context would need to get fully up to speed and take action. Finish by emitting one unambiguous handoff sentence.
Usage
/handoff
Optionally pass focus hints:
/handoff focus on the auth refactor only
What This Does
Invokes the metaswarm handoff skill, which:
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Reconstructs the objective — what the user is trying to accomplish, the Definition of Done, and why.
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Loads persisted state — folds in
.beads/plans/active-plan.md,.beads/context/*, andbd prime --work-type recoveryif present. -
Establishes current status — done/verified vs. in-progress vs. not-started, plus the real working-tree state (
git status, recent commits, unpushed/uncommitted changes). -
Identifies required reading — every spec, design, plan, code
file:line, and test the next agent must read, with why and what to look for. -
Writes the document to
docs/handoffs/handoff-<YYYY-MM-DD-HHmm>.md. -
Emits one sentence of the exact form:
Read docs/handoffs/handoff-2026-06-17-1432.md and do <concrete next action>.
Output Contract
- A self-contained handoff document (so the next agent needs to read only that one file).
- Exactly one closing sentence:
Read <path>.md and do <YYY>.where<YYY>is one concrete, immediately-actionable next step — never "continue the work".
When to Use
- A session is ending or context is about to be compacted.
- Switching sessions, machines, or agents mid-task.
- Pausing complex work you want to resume cleanly later.
- The user explicitly asks for a handoff.
Related
skills/handoff/SKILL.md— the full skill definition (method, document template, anti-patterns)./prime— loads context into a session (the inverse of this command)./self-reflect— captures durable learnings into the knowledge base (vs. this task's transient state).
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 3213526222db
handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (421 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 572 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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