advai-handoff

advai-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Advai-X/advai-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for saving and restoring a short handoff note in .advai/HANDOFF.md. The note records the current task, progress, changed files, checks, and next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recording completed work, preserving validation status, updating session progress, and resuming a task from the previous handoff.
Why use it?
It carries essential project context into a later coding-agent session without depending on the full conversation history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Recording completed work, preserving validation status, updating session progress, and resuming a task from the previous handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/advai-x/advai-skills/advai-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Advai-X/advai-skills --skill advai-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Advai-X/advai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4eaf8424b5cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advai-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.

skills/advai-handoff/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advai Handoff

Use this skill to persist a compact session handoff in the current project and restore that context later from .advai/HANDOFF.md.

When to Invoke

Invoke this skill when the user wants to:

  • Record what has been done in the current conversation for the next agent session
  • Save the current task goal, progress, changed files, validation status, and next step
  • Resume work in a new conversation by reading the previous handoff note first
  • Maintain a lightweight project-local state file instead of relying on long chat history

Do not use this skill for general documentation, changelogs, or long-form project notes.

Handoff File

  • Use exactly one file: .advai/HANDOFF.md
  • Treat the current project directory as the storage scope
  • Create the .advai/ directory if it does not already exist
  • Do not introduce extra handoff files, dated snapshots, or nested handoff directories unless the user explicitly asks for them

Operating Flow

In an active conversation

When the user asks to record or update handoff state:

  1. Read the current .advai/HANDOFF.md if it exists.
  2. Refresh the file with the latest state of the current task.
  3. Keep the note concise, factual, and easy for the next session to scan.

In a new conversation

When the user asks to resume from a previous handoff:

  1. Check whether .advai/HANDOFF.md exists in the current project.
  2. Read it before making assumptions about prior progress.
  3. Summarize the handoff back to the user and continue from the recorded next step.
  4. If the file is missing, say that no prior handoff note was found and continue with normal discovery.

Use this structure unless the user requests a different format:

# Handoff

## Goal
- <current objective>

## Completed
- <finished work>

## Changed Files
- `<path>`: <what changed>

## Validation
- <tests run, checks performed, or not run yet>

## Open Issues
- <known gaps, blockers, or follow-ups>

## Next Step
- <the most useful next action>

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 4eaf8424b5cf

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advai-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Advai-X/advai-skills (64 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 726 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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