session-handoff-msg

session-handoff-msg is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chipi/agentic-ai-homelab. It costs 115 tokens per session (640 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A message checker for handoffs between coding-agent sessions. It rejects unfinished placeholders and state claims such as deployed or approved unless a supplied proof command currently confirms them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before sending operational updates about holds, deployments, approvals, pushed changes, or completed work.
Why use it?
It prevents another session from acting on missing values or on claims that are not backed by evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it before sending operational updates about holds, deployments, approvals, pushed changes, or completed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/session-handoff-msg
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 chipi/agentic-ai-homelab --skill session-handoff-msg
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 640 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 $0.00115 $0.00640
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00064

Measured 17d ago against content hash 3e1509c94865, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-handoff-msg 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 17d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/lint_msg.py, scripts/test_lint_msg.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

workstation/claude/skills/session-handoff-msg/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

session-handoff-msg

Two messages to the ingestion session on 2026-10-17 went out wrong in the same exchange:

  1. The episode list was the literal text BATCH2_IDS; the ids were never filled in.
  2. It said "I am holding it until you answer" while the chain script would still have approved the gate. The hold became real only afterwards.

A peer acts on what the message says. A wrong state claim to a peer is the same failure as one to the operator (truthfulness rules 0.0 and 0.2), and placeholders are how drafts leak out.

Run

Write the message to a file, then:

L=~/.claude/skills/session-handoff-msg/scripts/lint_msg.py
python3 $L /tmp/msg.txt \
  --proof "holding=python3 ~/.claude/skills/prod-batch-chain/scripts/batch_chain.py podcast-2332 status | grep -q 'HOLD: yes'" \
  --proof "approved=gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/runs/RUN/approvals -q '.[].state' | grep -qx approved" \
  --allow PROD_SSH_HOST_KEY --not-a-claim done
  • SENDABLE (exit 0): send the printed text with SendMessage, unchanged.
  • REFUSED (exit 1): fix each line it lists. Do not send a "correction" afterwards instead.
  • --proof WORD='cmd': one per state word in the message. The command must exit 0 now. Prove it from the system itself (gh, ssh, a ledger), not from your own earlier message.
  • --allow TOKEN: a real ALL_CAPS name. Prefer putting it in backticks, which needs no flag.
  • --not-a-claim WORD: the word is used descriptively ("when it is done, …").

Tests

cd scripts && python3 -m unittest test_lint_msg replays both 2026-10-17 messages; both are refused.

Not covered

  • It cannot tell whether the content is right (the right ids, the right run). It only catches the two shapes that went wrong: unfilled placeholders and unproven state.
  • A state stated without one of the listed words ("nothing will start") passes. Add the word to STATE_WORDS when one slips through.
Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 17d ago First seen · 46 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 3e1509c94865

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session-handoff-msg is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipi/agentic-ai-homelab (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 640 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-18.

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