task-handoff

task-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deciding whether an agent task should continue in the current conversation or move to a fresh one. It can hand the task to a new session when the work is separate, needs approval, concerns another area, or would benefit from clean context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after filing a workhub task or when asking to run work in another session, to get a recommendation and carry out the handoff when appropriate.
Why use it?
Long or unrelated work can make the current conversation harder to follow. An explicit handoff keeps task context and ownership clearer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the workhub plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it after filing a workhub task or when asking to run work in another session, to get a recommendation and carry out the handoff when appropriate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atman-33/workhub/task-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add atman-33/workhub --skill task-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workhub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,175 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 $0.00062 $0.01175
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00470
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 27d ago against content hash ec0182234c9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-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 27d 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.

plugins/workhub/skills/task-handoff/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

task-handoff — Continue here, or hand the task to a fresh session

A task filed mid-session invites rolling straight into it. The owner's default runs the other way: a follow-up gets its own session, with a clean context and its own row in the session list. This skill turns that into an explicit call — a recommendation with its reason, every time — and carries out the handoff. For an ordered list of tasks to run back to back, use task-chain instead; to decide the order and parallelism of many tasks first, use task-orchestrate.

Steps

  1. Recommend continue or hand off. Read the task file's frontmatter and ## Description. This skill is for a task an agent is meant to work (todo, an agent assignee); for an inbox idea or a task assigned to me, the filing is the whole job and this skill is done — unless the owner asked for the handoff themselves. Recommend a fresh session when any of these hold:

    • it is its own unit of work — a different milestone or backlog item from the task this session is on;
    • it has confirm: true, so its plan needs the owner's approval;
    • it works in a different area or repository from this session;
    • this session's context is already large;
    • this session's own task is still open — task-report has not run.

    Recommend continuing here only when all of these hold: the change is small (a few places), it leans on context this session holds and no note records, and the owner has said to carry on. When the call is close, recommend a fresh session.

    Put the recommendation and its one-line reason to the owner, and wait for their answer. On "continue here", run task-start in this session; this skill is done.

  2. Pick the chip's start mode. Applies when this session has the desktop app's spawn_task tool (Claude Desktop). Starting a chip asks the owner whether to run it locally or in a git worktree. Two different worktrees are in play; keep them apart:

    • The chip's worktree is made of this session's working directory, on a claude/... branch. In the vault, that is a worktree of the vault.
    • worktree: true in a task's frontmatter makes task-start build a worktree of the target repository on task/<task-id>. It is independent of the chip's start mode, and both can apply to one task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 27d ago Changed · +9 lines ec0182234c9b
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  3. 29d ago Changed · +1 lines 51f71f0384f4
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 82264f36e5a2

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task-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,175 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-30.

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