handoff

handoff is a skill for Codex from dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A continuation brief for transferring active engineering work to another agent or session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when handing over a task, recording exact files and checks, listing unresolved questions, and specifying the next executable step.
Why use it?
It preserves the objective, decisions, evidence, risks, and unfinished work so the receiver does not need to reconstruct the conversation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when handing over a task, recording exact files and checks, listing unresolved questions, and specifying the next executable step.

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

Made for: Codex.

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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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 $0.00053 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash a2bf5092ccd6, 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 3d 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.

codex/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Follow the governing instructions and the user's requirements for communication, code style, authorization, and delegation. This skill supplies task-specific guidance, not permission to expand the task. Its workflow and output fields describe internal checks and relevant content, not a mandatory response layout or a progress report. When used within broader authorized work, continue that work through completion rather than stopping to deliver this skill's intermediate result.

Produce a continuation package that lets the receiver act without reconstructing the full conversation.

Capture current truth

State the objective, current status, completed work, files or systems touched, accepted decisions with reasons, governing constraints, and verification already performed. Link exact artifacts when available.

Preserve uncertainty

List unresolved questions, failed attempts that should not be repeated, assumptions that still need proof, and any user approval that remains required. Separate facts from recommendations.

Make continuation executable

Name the next concrete action, its inputs, expected result, and completion check. Include repository or environment state that the receiver must inspect before editing. Keep secrets and unnecessary raw logs out of the handoff.

For time-sensitive work, include the latest forecast or range, the owner of each blocking dependency, the next checkpoint, and the condition that triggers escalation or a fallback. Mark whether the forecast is evidence-based or still an assumption.

For an active incident, include evidence ownership, secure communication channel, current containment and recovery state, the next shift's objective, and explicit acknowledgement from the receiver. Do not place secrets or attacker-controlled content in the handoff.

Boundaries

Do not claim a handoff was delivered to another agent unless the corresponding message or transfer actually succeeded. A request only to create a handoff document does not authorize sending it, while an explicit request to send or transfer it does.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines a2bf5092ccd6
  2. 5d ago Changed · +4 lines f370801b7817
  3. 10d ago First seen · 29 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1e9ed8277e4e

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 442 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 2026-08-31.

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