handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (170 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A tool that records the current conversation and work context in a handoff document for another coding agent. The document includes relevant artifacts and suggested skills while leaving out sensitive information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pass ongoing work to another agent, summarize the next focus, reference existing plans or changes, and preserve useful context in a temporary document.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct what has already been discussed and done. This makes it easier to continue work after a session ends or changes hands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to pass ongoing work to another agent, summarize the next focus, reference existing plans or changes, and preserve useful context in a temporary document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/handoff
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 AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 170 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 78% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00019 $0.00170
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00085
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 7d ago against content hash d215dd8f2a19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

78% identical to handoff — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

handoff/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

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. 7d ago First seen · 16 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A d215dd8f2a19

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills (11 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 170 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to handoff, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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