session-handoff

A temporary handoff document that records what the current coding session was doing, the repository state, and where durable project information can be found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before stopping mid-task to record the next focus, current branch and commit, changed files, and suggested follow-up work.
Why use it?
It lets another session continue interrupted work without copying full specifications or decisions into a temporary note.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/assisjp/specflow/session-handoff
Any agent
npx skills add assisjp/specflow --skill session-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/assisjp/specflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 729 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 $0.00097 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7b8594e28211, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-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 2d 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/productivity/session-handoff/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Write an ephemeral handoff so a fresh agent can resume this work. The handoff is consumed once and then dies — it is session state, not a durable record.

Durable truth already has owners: architectural decisions live in ADRs, vocabulary in CONTEXT.md, requirements in the spec, verification commands in the block (AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md), and tasks in the tracker. The handoff does not compete with any of them. State goes in the handoff; decisions go in an ADR.

Where it writes

Write to .scratch/handoffs/<short-slug>.md. First, guarantee .scratch/ is in .gitignore — if it is not, add it before writing. A handoff swept into a PR by the next spec-execution run is a leak, not a handoff.

What goes in it

Reference durable artifacts by path or URL — never duplicate a spec, ADR, or issue body. But a path only resolves if the receiving session sees the same version of the tree, so record the git state that pins it:

# Handoff — <one-line topic>

## Focus of the next session
<If the user passed an argument, this is it: what the next session should do.>

## Git state
- Branch: <branch>
- HEAD: <short SHA>
- Dirty files: <list, or "clean">
- Unpushed commits: <count, or "none">

## Where things stand
<2-6 lines of session state: what was being done, what is half-done, what
just broke. State, not decisions.>

## Artifacts (by reference, not copied)
- Spec: <path or issue URL>
- ADRs touched: <paths>
- Relevant files: <paths>

## Open threads
<What is unresolved and needs a decision or a next step.>

## Suggested skills
<Which skills the next session should invoke, e.g. `spec-execution <issue>`,
`grill` to resolve an open decision.>

Rules

  • State, not decisions. A decision that will still matter months from now is an ADR, not a handoff line. If a handoff line records a why rather than a where things stand, it is a decision disguised as state — promote it to an ADR now (via domain-modeling), do not carry it forward.
  • Reference, don't duplicate. Paths and URLs, pinned by the git state above. Copying content means it goes stale the moment the source changes.
  • Redact secrets. No API keys, passwords, tokens, or PII in the handoff.
  • Keep it short. A handoff nobody can read in a minute is one the next session skims and mistrusts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 2d ago First seen · 57 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 7b8594e28211

Subscribe to this mod's changes

session-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository assisjp/specflow (17 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 729 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 2026-08-30.

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