handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh. It costs 25 tokens per session (195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff document that records the important context from one coding-agent conversation for another agent. It is saved in the operating system's temporary folder and includes suggested skills for the next agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when stopping work, switching agents, or preparing another session to continue a task with the right context and focus.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct the conversation from scratch. It also keeps references to existing plans, decisions, issues, and other outputs without copying them unnecessarily.

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 — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when stopping work, switching agents, or preparing another session to continue a task with the right context and focus.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/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 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 37 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 195 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 $0.00195
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3e7fc55a77eb, 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 10d 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/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

将当前对话总结为一份交接文档,方便一个全新的智能体继续工作。保存到用户操作系统的临时目录:而不是当前工作区。

文档中需要包含"建议技能"部分,指明下一个 agent 应该为哪些技能调用 Skill 工具。

不要重复复制已经记录在其他产物中的内容(spec、计划、ADR、Issue、commit、diff)。用路径或 URL 引用它们。

隐去所有敏感信息,如 API 密钥、密码或个人身份信息。

如果用户传入了参数,将其视为对下一个会话关注点的描述,据此调整文档内容。

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. 10d ago First seen · 17 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 3e7fc55a77eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh (331 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 195 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.