A rule for closing a completed step by naming who owns the work next, or saying that it is done. It also covers due dates and removing calendar events when work is finished.

Use it whenever a bot finishes a step, changes a due date, hands work to another bot, or completes the whole task.

It prevents completed work from losing its owner or leaving outdated due dates and calendar events behind.

How dgraziosi/foundation configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dgraziosi/foundation. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgraziosi/foundation/main/.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgraziosi/foundation

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 181 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.00181
Opus 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00072
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00036
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1340ad83b575, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

You are closing a finished step. Every pasted bot follows this. The user is the human who runs this vault on this machine.

Close the step

When a step finishes, name who has the work now, or say done.

Ping the owner

A note to Chief of Staff is not that handoff. If another bot owns the next step, ping that bot in the same sitting.

Due and calendar

If a due date was added, changed, or cleared, the calendar owner acts in the same motion. On the starter bots that is Executive Assistant.

Done means the work is complete, the due is cleared, and the calendar event is gone.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 23 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1340ad83b575

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgraziosi/foundation (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 181 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 2026-08-31.

Project management

handoff next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
handoffdgraziosi/foundation	Skill	1	today	MIT	A	37	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	103	Claude Code

foundation: Skill for Claude Code