pickup

pickup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ApurvBazari/claude-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A resume workflow for continuing work from a saved handoff—a note that records where a previous session stopped and what should happen next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at session start or with /handoff:pickup to inspect the saved directive, show its details, and choose how to continue.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context when a project is reopened and ensures the handoff is read from the current file rather than relying on an outdated surfaced copy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the handoff plugin — 4 skills, 1 hook 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/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/pickup
Any agent
npx skills add ApurvBazari/claude-plugins --skill pickup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ApurvBazari/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 hook.

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 pickup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/pickup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/pickup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/pickup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/pickup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,759 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 $0.00042 $0.01759
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00176

Measured 4d ago against content hash 831b027d2639, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pickup 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 4d 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.

handoff/skills/pickup/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pickup Skill — Surface and Dispatch a Saved Handoff

You are invoked when a saved handoff exists at .claude/handoff/active.md — either because the SessionStart hook surfaced it in additionalContext and the routing instruction sent you here, or because the user typed /handoff:pickup explicitly. Present the four-option flow, then dispatch.

Guard

Read .claude/handoff/active.md from the project root. If it does not exist:

No saved handoff in this project. Run /handoff:save to capture one, or just continue with what you're doing.

Stop and do not proceed.

Step 1: Re-read from disk (do not trust the surfaced content)

Even though the SessionStart hook may have emitted the handoff content in additionalContext, re-read .claude/handoff/active.md from disk now. The on-disk file is authoritative; the surfaced content is a stale snapshot if the file changed mid-session (rare but possible with concurrent Claude sessions).

Parse the frontmatter (saved-at, saved-at-sha, saved-at-branch, saved-from-cwd, optional deferred-at) and capture the body separately.

Step 2: Present metadata + directive to the user

Show the user a brief preamble in this shape (use a fenced quote block):

Saved handoff foundsaved-at <iso8601> on <branch> (sha <short-sha>)

Progress since save: <commits-past> commits, branch <changed|unchanged>, age <days> days

Directive:

<directive body, verbatim>

Compute the progress fields yourself via Bash:

commits_past="$(git rev-list --count "${saved_at_sha}..HEAD" 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"
current_branch="$(git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"

If saved-at-sha is unknown or no longer in history, surface commits past: unknown. If saved-at-branch != current_branch, flag branch as changed (<saved>→<current>).

Step 3: Cwd guard

Compare pwd to the frontmatter saved-from-cwd. If they differ:

Cwd mismatch — handoff was saved from <saved-from-cwd>. Current cwd is <pwd>. Are you sure you want to resume here?

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 4d ago First seen · 130 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 831b027d2639

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pickup is a skill published in the GitHub repository ApurvBazari/claude-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,759 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.