handoff

An end-of-day handoff command that records work in a dated memory file and sends a summary message. It covers completed tasks, decisions, problems, unfinished work, and notable changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a day to update the daily note and send a short Done, In-flight, and Next summary.
Why use it?
It preserves context between work sessions so the next day starts with a clear record of what happened and where to continue.

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/jansenanalytics/claudex/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 369 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 $0.00014 $0.00369
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6d2dd5af355c, 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 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/handoff.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

End-of-day handoff: persist what happened today to a daily memory file, then send a summary.

Steps:

  1. Determine today's date (Europe/Oslo): date +%Y-%m-%d.

  2. Read existing daily file at ~/.claude-agent/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md if present — you'll append/update, not overwrite.

  3. Gather what happened today:

    • Completed tasks (TaskList filtered to status=completed today)
    • Decisions made (search today's transcript or recent memory)
    • Problems hit and how they were resolved
    • Anything the user asked for that's still in-flight (carry-over for tomorrow)
    • Notable file edits, PRs, deploys
  4. Write/update the daily file with sections:

    # YYYY-MM-DD
    
    ## Done
    - ...
    
    ## Decisions
    - ...
    
    ## Carry-over to tomorrow
    - ...
    
    ## Notes
    - anything else worth remembering
    

    If the file already exists, merge new entries — don't duplicate.

  5. Send a Telegram summary to the user: 5–10 bullets covering "Done / In-flight / Next". Format Telegram-friendly (no tables). End with a one-line "Resume point" for tomorrow.

Rules:

  • Don't pad. A quiet day gets a short summary. If literally nothing happened, say so.
  • Don't claim "done" on tasks that aren't actually done. Distinguish "completed" from "punted."
  • The daily file is for FUTURE-you to read at session start — write so it's useful cold.
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 · 42 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 6d2dd5af355c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 369 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 2026-08-31.