claude-handoff

claude-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh. It costs 25 tokens per session (329 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff tool that prepares a summary of the current conversation for another coding agent and starts that agent in the background.

In plain words
What is it for?
Passing an unfinished coding task, its important context, and suggested skills to a new Claude agent.
Why use it?
It lets work continue in a fresh session without repeating the whole conversation, while removing sensitive information from the handoff.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 38 skills shipped together

Good fit Passing an unfinished coding task, its important context, and suggested skills to a new Claude agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/claude-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 devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh --skill claude-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills.

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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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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 329 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00025 $0.00329
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00132
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 18d ago against content hash 3b00f4f4cf50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-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 18d 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/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

为当前对话撰写一份交接摘要,让一个全新的 agent 能够继续工作。先将摘要保存到用户操作系统的临时目录,再以该文件内容作为提示启动后台 agent:claude --bg --name "<描述性名称>" -- "$(cat <summary file>)"。通过文件传入摘要可避免 shell 执行其中的反引号或展开 $。它会在当前工作目录启动并立刻返回;用户通过 claude agents 来管理它。

务必传 -n/--name 并配以描述性名称(例如 --name "修复登录 bug"):它会被设置为任务列表、会话选择器以及终端标题中所显示的标签。

在摘要里加一个 "suggested skills" 部分,建议下一个 agent 调用哪些技能。

不要重复已经被记录在其他产物(规格、计划、ADR、issue、commit、diff)中的内容。引用时用路径或 URL。

抹去任何敏感信息,例如 API 密钥、密码或可识别个人身份的信息:摘要会成为 agent 的提示词。

如果用户传入了参数,把它们当作对下一个会话关注点的描述,并据此裁剪摘要。

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. 18d ago Changed 3b00f4f4cf50
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A bc2aa7b9fab5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh (509 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 329 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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