handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from cafe3310/public-agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (454 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A handoff-document writer that creates or updates HANDOFF.md so another agent can continue a project in a new conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing work, switching agents, or preparing a project for someone to resume later.
Why use it?
It records the goal, progress, successful and failed approaches, suggested skills, and next steps in one place.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when pausing work, switching agents, or preparing a project for someone to resume later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cafe3310/public-agent-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 cafe3310/public-agent-skills --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cafe3310/public-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 454 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.00454
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 11d ago against content hash 71b937ea5383, 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

编写或更新交接文档,以便拥有全新上下文的下一个 Agent 可以继续此项工作。

步骤:

  1. 检查项目中是否已存在 HANDOFF.md。如果已存在,在更新前先阅读它以了解先前的上下文。
  2. 创建或更新包含以下内容的交接文档:
    • 目标:我们试图完成的工作,也包括当前正在使用的 TODO 文件。
    • 当前进展:目前已完成的工作和步骤。
    • 已生效方案:近期成功的方法/尝试。
    • 未生效方案:近期失败的方法/尝试(以避免重复)。
    • 推荐技能 (Suggested Agent Skills) :建议下一个 Agent 启动后调用的 Agent Skill。
    • 后续步骤:继续工作的建议行动项。

注意事项:

  • 不要重复记录已在其他文件(如 PRD、方案、决策记录、任务单、提交记录、Diff 等)中捕获的内容,你要直接通过路径或 URL 引用它们。
  • 如果用户传入了参数,请将其视为对下一阶段任务焦点的描述,并据此定制交接文档。

保存与交付:

  • 将文档保存为项目根目录下的 HANDOFF.md,并告知用户该文件路径,以便他们可以使用该路径开始全新的对话。
  • 生成一段简短的文本,让用户可以通过 copy 指令直接复制,并在新的对话中粘贴,以便下一个 Agent 可以快速获取交接文档的路径并继续工作。例如:
    我们继续上一个 Agent Session 的操作。
    交接指令在 {path_to_handoff} ,请先读取它,并按该文件的指示进行操作。
    
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 · 34 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 71b937ea5383

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository cafe3310/public-agent-skills (253 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 454 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.