handoff

A way to save the important state of a coding session and resume it later. It records project information and other session details for a future handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Wrapping up work, saving a handoff before leaving, and resuming a previous coding session.
Why use it?
It prevents work and context from being lost when you end a session or run out of context, so the next session can continue from the current state.

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/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,963 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 $0.00069 $0.02963
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01482
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00296

Measured 2d ago against content hash 237e7f8f505d, 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Two-mode skill: Save state at end of session, Resume state at start of next session.

Product-aware runner and state

Claude uses the installed runner and state under ~/.claude:

HANDOFF_RUNNER="$HOME/.claude/src/scripts/handoff.ts"
CC_STATE_ROOT="$HOME/.claude"

Standalone Codex uses ${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/darkroom/source/src/scripts/handoff.ts, but the plugin's stable handoff state is exposed only to hooks as $PLUGIN_DATA. In a Codex plugin hook, set HANDOFF_RUNNER to that runner and CC_STATE_ROOT="$PLUGIN_DATA". Outside that environment, do not guess a cache path or write into ~/.claude: manual Codex create/resume/list/clean is unavailable until the host exposes the same plugin-data path to the session.

Mode: Save

Save current session state for later resumption. This is the end-of-session boundary skill — for mid-task rollback points before risky operations, use /checkpoint.

Usage

CC_SETTINGS_HOME="$CC_STATE_ROOT" bun "$HANDOFF_RUNNER" create

Or use the native command:

/handoff

What Gets Saved

Every handoff — auto or manual — always captures real, git-derived data at creation time:

  • Project: name, path, current branch
  • Pending changes: git status --porcelain (first 20 lines)
  • Key files: uncommitted paths union the files the session ledger observed being changed (see below)
  • Recent commits: subjects of the last 3 commits
  • Source: manual or auto (see below)

In Claude, three additional sections are built purely from observed tool activity, not inference:

  • Files Modified — every path a Write/Edit/NotebookEdit touched
  • Files Read — every path a Read touched
  • Tool Failures — the exact tool name and error string, bounded and secret-redacted

These Claude-only sections come from the session ledger, a bounded JSONL at ~/.claude/tmp/session-ledger/<session_id>.jsonl written by the PostToolBatch hook. It exists to fix a specific hole: git status forgets everything you committed. A file edited at the start of a long session and committed an hour later is invisible to a git status-only handoff, so the longer the session, the more of its work disappears from the record. The ledger stores paths, tool names, and error strings only — never file contents, prompts, or tool responses — and never infers, so a Bash command's success is recorded as nothing rather than as a guess.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 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. 2d ago First seen · 337 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 237e7f8f505d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (42 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,963 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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