handoff

A handoff process that records unfinished task and workspace context in a Markdown file so another agent or session can continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Transferring incomplete coding work with a precise continuation prompt and repository-relative handoff file.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context when work must pause or move to another session. The next agent receives the current state, decisions, validation, and next action.

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/beeltec/context-usage-mcp/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add beeltec/context-usage-mcp --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beeltec/context-usage-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00046 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 47c6ef70c4e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Create one self-contained handoff that lets another agent continue without asking the user to repeat context.

  1. Stop task work and resolve the project root with git rev-parse --show-toplevel, falling back to the current directory outside Git.
  2. Inspect the conversation, applicable agent instructions, branch, git status, relevant diffs, changed files, and validation results.
  3. Create <project-root>/docs/handoffs/ and a unique handoff-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.md; never overwrite another handoff.
  4. Record the timestamp, project root, branch, objective, original requirements, completed and partial work, exact stopping point, workspace state, decisions and rationale, validation, blockers, failed approaches, ordered next steps, first concrete action, and key files. Mark empty sections None.
  5. Exclude secrets, environment dumps, and unrelated conversation. Do not commit this temporary file unless asked.
  6. Read the file back and verify that it is non-empty, accurate, and names the next action.

After success, present the repository-relative path followed by this exact prompt with the path substituted: Continue the work from <repository-relative handoff path> Do not continue the underlying task after presenting the prompt.

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 · 17 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 47c6ef70c4e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository beeltec/context-usage-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 305 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.

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