handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 7xuanlu/wenlan. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,017 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of handoff, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for closing a Wenlan work session and saving its important context for later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Updating the project Brief, saving typed captures, writing a chronological session log, and resolving the correct project space.
Why use it?
It keeps project status, durable memories, and the session history aligned so the next session can continue with reliable information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Updating the project Brief, saving typed captures, writing a chronological session log, and resolving the correct project space.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/7xuanlu/wenlan/handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 7xuanlu/wenlan --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/7xuanlu/wenlan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,017 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 29
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 102
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.02017
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00807
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00202

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bdb2af30a729, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

handoff scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to handoff — 114 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugin-codex/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff

Close the session with three separate artifacts:

  1. A typed update to the daemon-owned Space Brief.
  2. Durable MCP captures in that Space.
  3. A chronological session log in ~/.wenlan/sessions/.

The daemon Brief is current-work authority. Its ~/.wenlan/sessions/_status/<space>.md projection is a one-way human receipt. Never read, edit, or overwrite that receipt as authority.

1. Resolve repository and Space

handoff_arg="<the Space name passed to /handoff, empty when none>"
# The resolver ships inside the installed plugin; the relative path only
# exists in a wenlan checkout.
resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
resolved="$("${resolver:-plugin-codex/bin/resolve-space.sh}" --cwd "$PWD" --arg "$handoff_arg" --new-repo-fallback 2>/dev/null)"
space="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f1)"
source_layer="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f2)"

If the user passed a Space name (/wenlan:handoff <space>), pass it as --arg <space> to resolve-space.sh.

Print space and source_layer. Explicit pins, defaults, and mappings still win. cwd-repo-new is the approved first-handoff fallback: use the canonical repository basename, which the user can override through normal Space config. Do not invent any other Space name.

Outside a Git repository, do not derive a new Space from the directory basename. If resolution still leaves space empty, skip the Brief read and typed update, do not issue Space-scoped captures, and continue with the unscoped session log and any unscoped durable captures. Outside a Git repository, a pin, explicit argument, default, or mapping still resolves a Space, and the Brief update and captures still run.

2. Read the Brief before composing deltas

W="$(command -v wenlan || echo "$HOME/.wenlan/bin/wenlan")"
brief_before=""
brief_absent=0
daemon_down=0
if [ -n "$space" ]; then
  if [ "$source_layer" = "cwd-repo-new" ]; then
    space_probe_status=0
    space_probe="$("$W" --format json spaces show "$space" 2>&1)" || space_probe_status=$?
    if [ "$space_probe_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      brief_before="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief)"
      source_layer="cwd-repo"
    elif [ "$space_probe" = "Error: space '$space' not found" ]; then
      brief_absent=1
    elif printf '%s' "$space_probe" | grep -qE 'tcp connect error|daemon not reachable'; then
      daemon_down=1
      brief_before=""
      echo "wenlan daemon unreachable — this handoff will queue its writes"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$space_probe" >&2
      exit "$space_probe_status"
    fi
  else
    brief_status=0
    brief_output="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief 2>&1)" || brief_status=$?
    if [ "$brief_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      brief_before="$brief_output"
    elif printf '%s' "$brief_output" | grep -qE 'tcp connect error|daemon not reachable'; then
      daemon_down=1
      brief_before=""
      echo "wenlan daemon unreachable — this handoff will queue its writes"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$brief_output" >&2
      exit "$brief_status"
    fi
  fi
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 204 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B bdb2af30a729

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository 7xuanlu/wenlan (79 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,017 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 94% identical to handoff, differing in 114 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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