What is artel-handoff?

A command for writing a session handoff to Artel, a shared note system for coding agents. The handoff records completed work, unfinished work, and specific next steps.

Summarising a coding session so another agent can pick up the work.

It gives the next session or agent enough context to continue without repeating the investigation.

artel-handoff — Command for Claude Code by NicolasPrimeau/artel

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/NicolasPrimeau/artel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install artel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 97 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00015	$0.00097
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00039
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00019
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00010

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2cdf1fcc570a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

artel-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 2mo 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/artel-handoff.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Write an Artel session handoff for the current session using mcp__plugin_artel_artel__session_handoff.

Base it on the actual work done in this session, not a guess. Include a short summary of what was accomplished, what is still in progress, and concrete next steps. Keep it specific enough that a fresh agent could pick up where this left off.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2cdf1fcc570a

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artel-handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository NicolasPrimeau/artel (9 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 97 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 2026-08-31.

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