handoff-memory

handoff-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alphaelements/handoff-mcp. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-memory skill for saving, finding, combining, and removing durable notes about a software project. These notes can record lessons, rules, conventions, and hard-to-notice problems for later sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remember project decisions, save post-incident lessons, recall earlier knowledge, or clean up outdated and duplicate memories.
Why use it?
It prevents useful project knowledge from being lost between coding sessions and keeps recurring mistakes from being rediscovered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the handoff-mcp plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/alphaelements/handoff-mcp/handoff-memory
Any agent
npx skills add alphaelements/handoff-mcp --skill handoff-memory
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 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 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 $0.00096 $0.02062
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01031
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00206

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7d24917111c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-memory 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-memory/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff Memory Skill

When to use

  • The user says "メモリ保存", "これ覚えて", "知見を残して", "remember this", "save this as a memory"
  • The user asks "過去の知見を確認", "recall", "what do we know about X"
  • You discover a reusable lesson, recurring NG pattern, or project-specific convention worth persisting across sessions
  • Post-incident feedback or investigation results should be captured
  • Existing memories need merging, updating, or pruning
  • Session start — run cleanup to keep the memory store healthy

Granularity Rule

One memory = one piece of knowledge. Do not bundle multiple unrelated lessons into a single memory. Each memory should be independently searchable and independently deletable. If two ideas always travel together, save them together; if they could be relevant in different contexts, split them.

Saving a Memory

Call handoff_memory_save with:

Param Required Description
text yes The memory content. Be specific and actionable — "always use X because Y", not "X is important"
kind no (default: lesson) One of: lesson (something learned), rule (a mandated practice), convention (an agreed pattern), gotcha (a non-obvious trap)
scope_paths no Path prefixes this memory applies to (e.g. ["src/storage/", "src/mcp/handlers/"]). Memories with matching scope_paths get a relevance boost when the user edits files under those paths
tags no Free-form tags for searchability (e.g. ["atomic-write", "config"]). Tags are included in the similarity index
force no true to skip near-duplicate detection and save unconditionally
merge_into no ID of an existing memory to overwrite with merged content (see Merging below)
absorb_ids no IDs of memories to delete after merging into the target

scope_paths Best Practices

  • Use directory-level substrings, not full file paths: "src/storage/" not "src/storage/config.rs". The matching is substring-based (file_path.contains(scope)), so "storage/" will match any file whose path contains that segment
  • Scope broadly enough to catch related files, narrowly enough to avoid noise
  • A memory with no scope_paths relies purely on text similarity for injection — fine for project-wide rules, but file-specific gotchas benefit from scoping

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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 First seen · 160 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 7d24917111c4

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handoff-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository alphaelements/handoff-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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