handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness. It costs 19 tokens per session (170 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A tool for preparing a handoff document so another coding agent can continue the current task. The document records the relevant conversation context and suggests useful skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when transferring unfinished work to another agent, especially when the project already has plans, issue files, or code changes that should be referenced rather than copied.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct the task from scratch. It also keeps sensitive information out of the handoff.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when transferring unfinished work to another agent, especially when the project already has plans, issue files, or code changes that should be referenced rather than copied.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/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.

Any agent
npx skills add a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 78% 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 $0.00019 $0.00170
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00085
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 12d ago against content hash d215dd8f2a19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

78% identical to handoff — 5 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.

.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

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. 12d ago First seen · 16 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A d215dd8f2a19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 170 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to handoff, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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