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.

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

It reduces the need to repeat background and instructions after context limits or across separate sessions.

handoff — Plugin by thepushkarp

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 thepushkarp/handoff

agentmods

npx agentmods add plugins/thepushkarp/handoff/handoff

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thepushkarp/handoff

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 yesterday.

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"]
}

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.

yesterday First seen · 13 lines scan A 78e114ac5e46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a plugin published in the GitHub repository thepushkarp/handoff (9 stars, last pushed 6mo 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.

Planning claude claude-code claude-code-plugin claude-code-skill claude-skills handoff

handoff

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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