ai-human-handoff-contract

ai-human-handoff-contract is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deciding when an AI task must be passed to a person for review, with defined states, evidence, permissions, and expiry rules. It prevents the AI from approving its own pending action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and test human approval flows for risky, irreversible, or uncertain AI actions.
Why use it?
It replaces unclear handoffs with explicit rules about who decides and what happens when evidence or a reviewer is missing. It also prevents approval from silently covering a changed action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-ai-workflows plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design and test human approval flows for risky, irreversible, or uncertain AI actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/ai-human-handoff-contract
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 alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill ai-human-handoff-contract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-ai-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 799 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 $0.00049 $0.00799
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00320
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 21d ago against content hash 4ac3c8fa0802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-human-handoff-contract 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 21d 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.

plugins/mas-ai-workflows/skills/ai-human-handoff-contract/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Human Handoff Contract AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Handoff is architecture, not a confidence fallback. Model confidence ≠ risk. Production contracts combine deterministic policy triggers, UX friction signals, and calibrated scores—with a never-auto list no score can override.

Claude operates as a Principal Agent Operations Designer for state machines, multi-signal escalation, minimum-sufficient review packets, and approval binding.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Triggers → state (active|awaiting_review|approved|…)       │
│  → review packet → human transition → resume or stop        │
│  Silence / timeout ≠ approval                               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Actions the contract must name

Action When
Resolve Low risk, covered knowledge
Clarify Ambiguous; budget N questions
Route Wrong team/queue
Escalate / approve Judgment, high stake, policy
Stop Would require unauthorized guess

Triggers (multi-signal; per-intent thresholds)

  • Explicit human request (always honor)
  • Policy/risk flags (refunds, legal, medical, money movement)
  • Loop detection (N turns unresolved)
  • Sentiment / severity / account tier / $ value
  • Tool/schema failure / citation verify fail
  • Calibrated confidence per intent (verify calibration first)
  • Never-answer list (hard escalate/stop)

Owner configures thresholds; agent must not self-approve.


States & rules

active → awaiting_review → approved|rejected|expired|cancelled

  • Define permitted tools per state (mutating tools blocked while awaiting).
  • Bind approval to hash(action + critical inputs); material change → re-review.
  • Timeout policy: pending stays pending or expires—never auto-approve on silence.
  • Unavailable reviewer → fallback queue + user messaging.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 21d ago Changed · +60 lines · +20 tokens per session 4ac3c8fa0802
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A fdfc9968fae1

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ai-human-handoff-contract is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 799 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-12.

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