handoff-import

handoff-import is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alphaelements/handoff-mcp. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for importing an existing handoff document into a project's .handoff folder. A handoff document records work items, decisions, blockers, and notes for another person or agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a Markdown, JSON, or plain-text file to create structured tasks, save the session context, and check the imported results.
Why use it?
It turns unstructured project handover text into tracked information that the handoff tools can use and display.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the handoff-mcp plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it with a Markdown, JSON, or plain-text file to create structured tasks, save the session context, and check the imported results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alphaelements/handoff-mcp/handoff-import
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 alphaelements/handoff-mcp --skill handoff-import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alphaelements/handoff-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install handoff-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,237 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 $0.00066 $0.02237
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00895
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00224

Measured 3d ago against content hash 29c58778bec7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-import 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 3d 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.

plugin/skills/handoff-import/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff Import

Import an existing handoff document (Markdown, JSON, or free-text) into structured .handoff/ management via a single handoff_import_context call.

Usage

/handoff-import tmp/260601-sprint-handoff.md
/handoff-import path/to/any-document.md

If called without arguments, ask the user for a file path.

Procedure

  1. Init check: Verify .handoff/ exists. If not, run handoff_init first.

  2. Read the source: Read the specified file with the Read tool.

  3. Analyze and structure: Decompose the content into the categories below.

  4. Import: Call handoff_import_context once with all extracted data.

  5. Report: Show how many tasks were created, whether a session was saved, and whether raw_notes captured anything.

  6. Verify: Call handoff_list_tasks to display the import result and ask the user to confirm correctness.

Field Mapping Guide

tasks — Extracting Structured Tasks

Every actionable item in the source document becomes a task. Always populate these fields:

Field How to extract
title Short imperative phrase (e.g. "Add retry logic to USB reconnect")
status Map from source: "done"/"completed" -> done, "WIP"/"in progress" -> in_progress, "blocked" -> blocked, else todo
priority See priority rules below. Must be low, medium, or high
notes Context that doesn't fit elsewhere: root cause, constraints, approach taken
labels Category tags from the source (e.g. ["auth", "security"], ["pio", "dma"])
links Related file paths, issue URLs, MR URLs, wiki pages
done_criteria Verifiable checklist items extracted from prose (see below)
children Sub-tasks nested under a parent
schedule.estimate_hours If effort estimates are mentioned (e.g. "~2h", "half a day")
schedule.due_date If deadlines are mentioned (ISO format)
schedule.milestone If milestone names are mentioned
dependencies Task IDs this task depends on (e.g. "after t1", "once X is done")
order Display ordering hints (e.g. P0→P1→P2 maps to 0, 1, 2)

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed 29c58778bec7
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 239 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 47ec60937acb

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handoff-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository alphaelements/handoff-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,237 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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