handoff

handoff is a command for Claude Code from MissingPackage/nightshift. It costs 9 tokens per session (99 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that updates the project’s hand-off notes before a work session ends. These notes record the next decision, changes made, unresolved work, hazards, and items needing approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when stopping work so another agent or developer can quickly understand what happened and what should happen next.
Why use it?
It prevents the next session from having to reconstruct the project’s state from chat history or memory.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the nightshift plugin — 11 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when stopping work so another agent or developer can quickly understand what happened and what should happen next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/missingpackage/nightshift/handoff
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MissingPackage/nightshift

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nightshift, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 99 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00099
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00040
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00010

Measured 28d ago against content hash dcf58b68ce31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 28d 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 · 8 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the handoff skill now: refresh HANDOFF.md (or research/AGENDA.md §1 where that convention exists) to reflect the current session's end state — head line (objective, current value, gap), levers, fog, decisions of the four kinds, landmines. Then print §1 back to me so I can sanity-check it in ten seconds.

$ARGUMENTS

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. 28d ago Changed dcf58b68ce31
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 7df88007b0eb

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handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository MissingPackage/nightshift (3 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 99 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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