handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge. It costs 59 tokens per session (669 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for writing a short handoff document when coding work needs to continue in another session or by another agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving progress summaries for paused work, task switches, long sessions, and requests to wrap up or continue later.
Why use it?
It preserves the goal, current state, decisions, open questions, next steps, and changed files without requiring the full conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skill-forge plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Saving progress summaries for paused work, task switches, long sessions, and requests to wrap up or continue later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/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 Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 669 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00059 $0.00669
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0ae19360aec2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Create a structured document capturing everything needed to continue work in a fresh session — in under 50 lines.

Process

Write a handoff document capturing everything needed to continue this work.

What to Include

1. GOAL — what we're building/fixing (one sentence)
2. CURRENT STATE — what's done, what's in progress, what's blocked
3. KEY DECISIONS MADE — choices that shouldn't be re-litigated
4. OPEN QUESTIONS — unresolved decisions awaiting input
5. NEXT STEPS — exact actions to take (not vague "continue working")
6. FILES TOUCHED — paths modified this session
7. SUGGESTED SKILLS — which skills the next session should invoke

What NOT to Include

  • Full code (reference by file path instead)
  • Conversation history (this is a SUMMARY not a transcript)
  • Sensitive info (API keys, passwords, PII)
  • Resolved dead ends (only include what's RELEVANT going forward)

Where to Save

Save to the OS temp directory (not the workspace):

  • Windows: $env:TEMP/handoff-{project}-{date}.md
  • macOS/Linux: /tmp/handoff-{project}-{date}.md

Tell the user the path so they can reference it next session.

Common Mistakes

  • Including full code instead of file paths (bloats the handoff, makes it unreadable)
  • Forgetting open questions (next session re-litigates decisions)
  • Writing vague next steps like "continue working" (be SPECIFIC: which file, which function, which test)
  • Saving to the workspace (pollutes the project — use temp directory)

Format

Keep it SHORT. Under 50 lines. A good handoff is one page a new agent can scan in 10 seconds and know exactly what to do.

Example

## Handoff — skill-forge v1.2.0

**Goal:** Add TF-IDF semantic routing to replace token-overlap matching.

**State:** Route-task.js rewritten and passing. 98 tests green. Not yet pushed.

**Decisions Made:**
- TF-IDF + cosine similarity (not embedding API — zero dependencies)
- Compound routing: combine top 3-5 skills when overlap < 40%
- Indexed learnings surfaced alongside skill matches

**Open Questions:**
- Should RL weights be per-skill or per-category? (currently per-category)

**Next Steps:**
1. Run `node tests/run-tests.js` — confirm all pass
2. Push with `git -c http.version=HTTP/1.1 push origin main`
3. Update SKILL.md Phase 4 to reference new routing

**Files:** scripts/route-task.js, memory/indexed-learnings.json, tests/run-tests.js
**Skills for next session:** /prove-it, /self-review

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 81 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 0ae19360aec2

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 669 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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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