ave: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from aveproject/ave. It costs 0 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A handoff procedure for recording work between coding-agent sessions. It uses dated Markdown files and a validation script to capture completed work, status, and next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read the latest handoff, validate project records, document completed changes, and note the next issue to handle.
Why use it?
It gives the next session a clear record of what changed and what remains, reducing repeated investigation and missed tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is aveproject/ave's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ave itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ave configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aveproject/ave. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aveproject/ave/main/.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/ave

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 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 $0.00000 $0.00175
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00070
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c918acee24b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

handoff — ave

End: docs/agents/handoffs/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md Start: read most recent, run python scripts/validate_records.py.

End format

Handoff — date

Completed

  • records/AVE-2026-00049.json — header injection (BadHost) record added
  • tests/fixtures/AVE-2026-00049_positive.md + _negative.md
  • Coordinated detection-rule PR opened in bawbel/scanner, referencing AVE-2026-00049

Status

python scripts/validate_records.py → all valid pytest tests/ -q → N passed

Next

AVE-2026-00050: database data-path exposure (Mads Hansen suggestion) First: grill the behavioral_fingerprint.

Note: docs/agents/handoffs/ gitignored.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c918acee24b1

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 175 tokens. 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.