session-handoff

session-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 33 tokens per session (789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-based handoff document for transferring unfinished work between developers, AI agents, tools, machines, or future sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It records progress, decisions, remaining work, important files, and instructions for whoever continues the task.
Why use it?
It preserves the task’s current state in a committed file when built-in session memory cannot cross those boundaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It records progress, decisions, remaining work, important files, and instructions for whoever continues the task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christopherlouet/claude-base/session-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 christopherlouet/claude-base --skill session-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 789 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 $0.00033 $0.00789
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash f8e326ef57b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-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 4d 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/session-handoff/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Objective

Produce a git-committable handoff document (.claude/handoff.md) that transfers a work session's state to a different reader: another developer, another agent, another LLM, or a future session on another machine.

Native features first

Claude Code natively covers resuming your own session — do not rebuild that here:

Need Native answer
Resume my own session claude --resume <id> (full context)
Recap after a break or /compact /recap
Persistent preferences/decisions across sessions auto memory (~/.claude/memory/)

This skill's delta is the cross-boundary case: native memory and --resume are personal and machine-local — they do not transfer to a teammate, a CI agent, another tool, or another workstation. A committed handoff.md does.

When to use

  • Handoff between developers/agents/tools (the reader is NOT this session's owner)
  • Work continuing on another machine or in an environment without your ~/.claude
  • Documentation of work in progress that must live IN the repo

Handoff format

Context file: .claude/handoff.md

# Session Handoff

**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]
**Session:** [ID or description]
**Author:** [Human or agent]

## Project context

**Project:** [Name]
**Branch:** [Branch name]
**Current commit:** [Hash]

## Work state

### Done
- [x] [Task 1] - [Detail]

### In progress
- [ ] [Task 3] - [Current state, where it stands]
  - Modified files: [list]
  - Next step: [description]
  - Possible blocker: [description]

### To do
- [ ] [Task 4] - [Description]

## Decisions made

| Decision | Reason | Rejected alternative |
|----------|--------|---------------------|
| [Choice 1] | [Why] | [Other option] |

## Key files

| File | Role | State |
|---------|------|------|
| `src/xxx.ts` | [Description] | Modified / Created / To modify |

## Patterns and conventions discovered

- [Pattern 1 from the codebase]

## Problems encountered

| Problem | Solution/Workaround | Resolved? |
|----------|---------------------|----------|
| [Problem 1] | [Solution] | Yes/No |

## Notes for the next session

[Specific instructions, pitfalls to avoid, points of attention]

## Useful commands

```bash

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 4d ago First seen · 119 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f8e326ef57b0

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session-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 789 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 2026-09-03.

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