handoff

handoff is a command for Claude Code from Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai. It costs 14 tokens per session (164 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that creates a resume prompt for continuing work in a new Claude Code session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving unfinished work to a fresh session or recovering a previous handoff.
Why use it?
It preserves the current session's context so you do not have to explain the work again. It also saves earlier handoff prompts for recovery.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the attune-ai plugin — 1 command, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when moving unfinished work to a fresh session or recovering a previous handoff.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai
Claude Code
/plugin install attune-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install attune-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 6 agents, 1 hook.

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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 164 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 $0.00014 $0.00164
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00066
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 728c1903b49c, 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 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.

plugin/commands/handoff.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

You are generating a resume prompt the user will copy into a new Claude Code session to pick up where this one left off.

Run the helper to produce the resume prompt:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/_handoff_cli.py"

Print the helper's stdout verbatim as your reply. Do not add commentary, headers, or framing — the user wants ONLY the markdown blockquote so they can paste it directly.

The helper also appends the prompt to ~/.attune/last-handoff.md (timestamped, append-only) so the user can recover earlier handoffs.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 728c1903b49c

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handoff is a command published in the GitHub repository Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 164 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 2026-09-03.

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