handoff

handoff is a plugin for Claude Code from thepushkarp/handoff. Its manifest loads nothing; the 2 commands, 4 hooks it bundles cost 20 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code add-on that saves working context when a session is about to be shortened and restores it when the session continues. Session context is the conversation and task state an agent needs to keep working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to continue coding tasks across Claude Code sessions and recover saved context after automatic context compaction.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat background and instructions after context limits or across separate sessions.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to continue coding tasks across Claude Code sessions and recover saved context after automatic context compaction.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add thepushkarp/handoff
/plugin install handoff
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/thepushkarp/handoff

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 2 commands, 4 hooks cost 20 tokens a session between them.
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.
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.

plugins/handoff/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "handoff",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Preserve and restore context between Claude Code sessions with always-on handoff hooks (auto-save before compaction, auto-inject after)",
  "author": {
    "name": "thepushkarp"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/thepushkarp/handoff",
  "repository": "https://github.com/thepushkarp/handoff",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["handoff", "context", "session", "continuity", "workflow", "compaction", "hooks"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 2 commands, 4 hooks travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 20 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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 · 13 lines scan A 78e114ac5e46

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handoff is a plugin published in the GitHub repository thepushkarp/handoff (12 stars, last pushed 7mo 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.