handoff-resume

handoff-resume is a command for Claude Code from TusharKarkera22/claude-loadout. It costs 26 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for picking up a teammate’s in-progress handoff, meaning a packaged set of work and notes intended for another developer. It fetches the bundle, shows its summary and change size, and waits for confirmation before applying patches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load a local or Git-based handoff, review its summary and diff statistics, and apply the changes only after explicitly approving them.
Why use it?
It lets you inspect another person’s pending changes before they alter your working tree.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

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 claude-loadout plugin — 1 skill, 9 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to load a local or Git-based handoff, review its summary and diff statistics, and apply the changes only after explicitly approving them.

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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 TusharKarkera22/claude-loadout
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-loadout

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-loadout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 9 commands.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00026 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 12d ago against content hash de0cce57c5c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-resume 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 12d 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-resume.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are helping the user pick up an in-progress handoff from a teammate. Patch application happens only after the user explicitly says yes.

The user passed: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1 — Fetch the bundle to a stable local path. Pick the first positional token from $ARGUMENTS as the source. If it looks like a local directory containing a handoff.json, use it directly. Otherwise clone it into a temp dir at ~/.claude-loadout/_handoff-staging/<short-id>/ (create the parent dir if missing). Use git clone --depth 1 for a Git URL; expand owner/repo shorthand to https://github.com/owner/repo.git.

Print the local bundle path you ended up with so the user can see it.

Step 2 — Run resume in review mode (no apply). Forward the remaining flags from $ARGUMENTS (everything after the source) and add --no-apply. Use the local bundle path you just resolved as the source argument:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/cli.cjs" handoff resume <local-bundle-path> --no-apply <remaining-flags>

The CLI validates the manifest, optionally checks out the author's branch, and prints a git apply --stat diff stat. Capture both stdout and stderr — the diff stat lands on stderr.

Step 3 — Surface the summary + scope. Read <local-bundle-path>/handoff.md and show it to the user. Then present the diff stat the CLI emitted. Together these answer: what was the teammate doing, and how big is the patch I'm about to take?

Step 4 — Ask before applying. Ask the user verbatim: "Apply this patch to your working tree? (y/N)". Do not apply unless they answer yes. If they say no or hesitate, stop here and offer to discuss the changes first.

Step 5 — Apply on confirmation. If the user confirms, run the same command without --no-apply and with --yes (since the CLI is non-interactive in this context):

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/cli.cjs" handoff resume <local-bundle-path> --yes <remaining-flags>

Surface the CLI's output (branch switched, patch applied), then propose the first concrete next task from the summary's "What's pending" / "What I'd do next" sections. Confirm with the user before starting work.

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. 12d ago First seen · 33 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A de0cce57c5c2

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handoff-resume is a command published in the GitHub repository TusharKarkera22/claude-loadout (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 600 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.