resume

resume is a command for Claude Code from willseltzer/claude-handoff. It costs 7 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for continuing development work from a handoff document written by another AI agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps locate and read HANDOFF.md or a supplied handoff file, inspect recent Git history and uncommitted changes, summarize the current status, and continue with the documented next step.
Why use it?
It restores the previous task’s context and checks whether the repository has changed since the handoff, reducing the chance of working from outdated assumptions.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the handoff plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

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/willseltzer/claude-handoff/resume
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willseltzer/claude-handoff

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for resume

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/willseltzer/claude-handoff/resume.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/willseltzer/claude-handoff/resume)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/willseltzer/claude-handoff/resume"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/willseltzer/claude-handoff/resume.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 359 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 5.1 $0.00007 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 6d ago against content hash c6760b806f74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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/resume.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Resume work from a handoff created by another AI agent.

1. Find and Read the Handoff

Look for the handoff document:

  • If $ARGUMENTS is provided, read that path
  • Otherwise, check for HANDOFF.md in the current directory
  • If not found, ask the user for the path

Read the entire handoff document carefully.

2. Verify State Hasn't Drifted

Run git status and git log --oneline -3 to check:

  • Is the branch the same as documented?
  • Have there been commits since the handoff was created?
  • Are there uncommitted changes not mentioned in the handoff?

If state has drifted significantly, warn the user:

"The repo has changed since this handoff was created. [describe changes]. Should I proceed with the handoff context anyway, or would you like to describe what changed?"

3. Summarize to the User

Give a brief summary (not the whole document):

Resuming from handoff: [title]

Goal: [1 sentence]
Status: [X of Y tasks complete]
Next: [First item from Resume Instructions]

Ready to continue?

4. Heed the Warnings

Pay special attention to:

  • Failed Approaches - Don't repeat these mistakes
  • Warnings - Respect gotchas from the previous agent
  • Key Decisions - Follow established patterns unless user asks to change

5. Continue the Work

Start with the first item in "Resume Instructions" unless the user redirects.

If the handoff is unclear on something critical, ask the user rather than guessing.

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. 6d ago First seen · 52 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A c6760b806f74

Subscribe to this mod's changes

resume is a command published in the GitHub repository willseltzer/claude-handoff (143 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.