handoff

A set of tools for writing down the state of a coding session and restoring it in a later session. A handoff is a note that gives the next session the context it needs to continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create handoff notes, detect them when a session starts, and pick up work while accounting for changes made since the note was created.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing decisions, unfinished work, or relevant context when a session ends. It can detect changes since the handoff and uses beads or Markdown files to store the information.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jtsternberg/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/jtsternberg/claude-plugins/handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtsternberg/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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 2d 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.

plugins/handoff/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "handoff",
  "description": "Skills and hooks for creating and picking up handoffs to preserve context between Claude Code sessions — session-start detection, drift-aware pickup, and a beads backend with markdown-file fallback.",
  "version": "3.0.4",
  "author": {
    "name": "JT Sternberg",
    "url": "https://github.com/jtsternberg"
  }
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A 7194c6bcb763

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a plugin published in the GitHub repository jtsternberg/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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