handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,306 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A session handoff note that records what happened in a coding task, why decisions were made, and what remains for another agent to verify. It can be copied into a new agent session and saved as a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing end-of-session summaries, switching between agents, recovering after context limits, and dividing a large coding task across sessions.
Why use it?
It prevents a new session from losing important context, repeating investigations, or making the same mistakes when the conversation gets too long or work changes hands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Preparing end-of-session summaries, switching between agents, recovering after context limits, and dividing a large coding task across sessions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,306 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 100% 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 $0.00069 $0.01306
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00653
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00131

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4564ebbc77b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d 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

100% identical to handoff — 0 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.

skills/agent-orchestration/handoff/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Write a complete handoff that lets a fresh agent — with zero memory of this session — continue the work without re-asking, re-discovering, or repeating mistakes.

Output the entire handoff as a single fenced code block in the chat so the user can copy it in one click. Also save a copy to a file (see "File Output").

Core Principles

  1. State, not instructions. Describe what is true, not what the next agent should do. Write "Auth endpoint is implemented; logout is not yet started" — never "Implement logout next." The fresh agent decides actions; you give it ground truth.
  2. Reference, don't duplicate. Do not paste content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs, design docs). Point to them by path or URL. Handoffs that re-embed everything become bloated and stale.
  3. Capture the "why". Decisions and rejected approaches are the most valuable and least recoverable information. Code shows what; only you remember why and what failed.
  4. Trust nothing blindly. Frame all claims as context to verify against the actual code, not facts to accept.
  5. Redact secrets. Strip API keys, tokens, passwords, and PII. Reference where credentials live (e.g. ".env.local, not committed") — never their values.
  6. Be ruthless. Every line must be something the next agent cannot trivially get by reading the code or project config. Cut anything obvious, redundant, or explanatory.

Procedure

  1. If a project config file exists (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / equivalent), read it first. Do not restate anything already covered there — the handoff is session-specific only.
  2. If a prior handoff file already exists, read it and update rather than starting from scratch.
  3. If the user passed arguments, treat them as the focus for the next session and tailor the handoff toward that goal.
  4. Fill in every section of the template below. Omit a section only if it is genuinely empty (e.g. no blockers) — mark it None.
  5. Output the filled template inside one fenced code block in the chat.
  6. Save the same content to the file path described below and tell the user that path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 11d ago First seen · 98 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 4564ebbc77b8

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,306 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to handoff, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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