handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from d-gangz/dgang-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (515 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to transfer a defined piece of work between separate, user-visible coding sessions and return the results. Each session keeps its own focused context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate an investigation or implementation to another session, then hand back a brief containing the work and results.
Why use it?
Large or parallel tasks can become difficult to follow when every detail stays in one conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to delegate an investigation or implementation to another session, then hand back a brief containing the work and results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-gangz/dgang-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 d-gangz/dgang-skills --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-gangz/dgang-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 515 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 $0.00039 $0.00515
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash 31ecbd234a0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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 · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pass the baton for a unit of work between two user-visible sessions, so each session's context stays focused on its own job. A side session takes on delegated work without bloating the origin's context; when it finishes, results flow back. For the return trip to land, whoever hands off must leave an address the other session can find — the mechanics below hinge on this.

Two directions

Send off — delegate to a new side session:

  1. Compose the brief (below).
  2. Spin off the side session and pass it the brief, using your harness mechanics. Open it in the same project as the origin by default; target a different project only when the user asks for one.

Hand back — return results to the session that spawned you:

  1. Compose the brief (below), covering what you did and what you produced.
  2. Resolve the origin session and deliver the brief to it, using your harness mechanics.

The brief

Carry the brief inline in the spin-off / hand-back message, written so the receiving session can continue with no other context. If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the receiving session should focus on and tailor the brief accordingly.

  • Summarise the work: goal, what's done, what's left, key decisions.
  • Include a suggested skills section naming skills the receiving session should invoke.
  • Reference existing artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs) by path or URL — do not restate their content.
  • Redact secrets and PII (API keys, passwords, personal data).
  • On a send off, include the origin's return address so the side session can hand back (see harness mechanics).

Only when the context is too large to carry inline, write it to the OS temp directory (not the workspace) and include the file path as a pointer in the message.

Harness mechanics

Spin-off and addressing differ by harness. Read the file for the one you are running in:

  • Claude Code → references/claude-code.md
  • Codex → references/codex.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 38 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 31ecbd234a0d

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-gangz/dgang-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 515 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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