handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 83 tokens per session (652 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured summary of a coding session for the next developer or session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, handing over unfinished work, or recording files changed, open issues, and environment-specific warnings.
Why use it?
It preserves what changed, what remains, important decisions, test results, and known risks so work can resume without rediscovery.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the playbook plugin — 48 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when ending a session, handing over unfinished work, or recording files changed, open issues, and environment-specific warnings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/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 ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 4 hooks.

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
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 652 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 $0.00083 $0.00652
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00065

Measured 7d ago against content hash 213411f657fc, 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Create a structured handoff document so the next Claude Code session (or another developer) can pick up exactly where you left off.

Steps

  1. Summarize what was accomplished:

    • List files created, modified, or deleted
    • Describe each change in one sentence
    • Note any tests added or modified
  2. Document what's left to do:

    • Remaining tasks from the original request
    • Known issues discovered during implementation
    • Tests that still need to be written
    • Edge cases identified but not yet handled
  3. Record decisions made:

    • Architecture or design choices and why they were made
    • Alternatives that were considered and rejected (with reasons)
    • Trade-offs accepted (e.g., "chose simplicity over performance because...")
  4. Flag gotchas and warnings:

    • Anything that's fragile or could break easily
    • Dependencies on external systems or specific configurations
    • Environment-specific requirements (env vars, services, ports)
    • Known limitations of the current implementation
  5. Capture the current state:

    • Branch name and last commit hash
    • Test results (passing/failing counts)
    • Build status (clean or known errors)
    • Any running processes or servers that need to be stopped/started
  6. Write to SESSION_NOTES.md:

    • Save in the project root as SESSION_NOTES.md
    • Replace contents if file already exists (don't append)
    • Keep under 50 lines — concise is better than comprehensive
    • Include date and time at the top

Output Format

# Session Handoff — [DATE]

## Completed
- [file]: [what changed]

## Remaining
- [ ] [task]

## Decisions
- [decision]: [rationale]

## Gotchas
- [warning]

## State
- Branch: [name] @ [hash]
- Tests: [X passing, Y failing]
- Build: [clean/errors]

Important

  • Replace, don't append. SESSION_NOTES.md should reflect the latest session only.
  • Be specific. "Fixed the auth bug" is useless. "Changed token expiry from 1h to 24h in src/auth/config.ts" is useful.
  • Include the why. Future sessions need context, not just facts.
  • Keep it short. If the summary exceeds 50 lines, you're including too much detail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

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 · 86 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 213411f657fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 652 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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