shift-notes

Instructions for writing a three-sentence handover note when ending a work shift. A handover note tells the next person what changed, what remains open, and what to watch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before filing a shift note, recording changes, confirmed open items, and risks for the next shift against the date the shift actually took place.
Why use it?
They keep the note brief and prevent it from inventing unfinished work that the user has not confirmed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentdecksdk/agentdeck/shift-notes
Any agent
npx skills add agentdecksdk/agentdeck --skill shift-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentdecksdk/agentdeck

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 125 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.00125
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00013

Measured yesterday against content hash 6a56e33cc1b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shift-notes 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.

examples/agent-with-a-skill/.agentdeck/skills/shift-notes/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

A handover note has three parts, in this order: what changed during the shift, what is still open, and what the next shift should watch for.

Keep it to three sentences, one per part. If the user has not said what is still open, ask before filing - a note that invents an open item is worse than no note.

File it against the date the shift ran, not the date it was written, if those differ.

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. yesterday First seen · 13 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 6a56e33cc1b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shift-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentdecksdk/agentdeck (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 125 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.