session-handoff

session-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from DollarDill/beads-superpowers. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A human-invoked skill that records the current work in a handoff document and a short continuation pointer. A handoff lets a new agent or teammate resume an unfinished task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before clearing or compacting a session, at the end of a work period, or when transferring work. It gathers repository status, recent commits, changes, task items, and relevant planning or architecture files.
Why use it?
It preserves the task's state before a session is cleared, shortened, ended, or passed to someone else.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the beads-superpowers plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before clearing or compacting a session, at the end of a work period, or when transferring work. It gathers repository status, recent commits, changes, task items, and relevant planning or architecture files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dollardill/beads-superpowers/session-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DollarDill/beads-superpowers --skill session-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DollarDill/beads-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beads-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,116 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 $0.00047 $0.01116
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 9d ago against content hash 56f9818bc885, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-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 9d 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/session-handoff/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Write a grounded handoff document — and a one-line continuation memory — so a fresh session can resume exactly where this one left off.

Announce at start: "I'm using the session-handoff skill to write a session handoff."

Human-invoked only. A human fires this skill directly (slash command or explicit ask) — before /clear, /compact, a context limit, or a teammate handoff. It stays off every agent-trigger surface by design.

When a human uses this

  • Before /clear or /compact, mid-task, when context is about to be lost.
  • End of a working session, to seed the next one.
  • Handing work to a teammate or another agent.

Optional argument: a short description of what the next session will focus on — used to tailor Work In Progress / Loose Threads / Suggested Skills.

Pipeline

  1. Gather (read-only, run the commands — do not recall): git status -sb, git log --oneline -15, git diff --stat, branch + ahead/behind; bd ready, bd blocked, bd count --by-status, in-progress beads; list the spec, plan, and architecture-decision-record files touched this session. Done when: every listed command has run and its output is captured.
  2. Synthesize into the bundled template (handoff-template.md). Reference artifacts by path — never paste their bodies (commits, ADRs, specs, plans, diffs). Duplicating bloats the doc and goes stale. Done when: every section maps to a captured fact, referenced by path.
  3. Write the doc — Default: .internal/handoff/YYYY-MM-DD[-HHMMSS]-<topic>-handoff.md (-HHMMSS only if a same-day handoff exists). (The same-day check globs the inbox .internal/handoff/*.md only; archived docs under archive/ are out of scope and do not affect same-day naming.) If the human names another location, write there. mkdir -p the target first. Done when: the doc exists at the target path.
  4. Write the continuation memorybd remember "continuation-<date>-<topic>: <one-line pointer to doc path + headline state>" (episodic continuation record; one-line pointer only). Done when: bd remember has run for the continuation key.
  5. Verification (externally anchored — output the result block):
    • Cross-check each state line against the captured Phase-1 command output.
    • Gitignore safety: git check-ignore <output-path>; if NOT ignored, warn the human ("⚠️ is not gitignored; a handoff can contain sensitive session state") and offer to add it to .gitignore before writing.
    • ls <path> confirms the doc exists; bd memories <key> confirms the memory.
    • Secret-scan grep over the doc (sk-, ghp_, AKIA, -----BEGIN, password=) — a backstop, not a guarantee.
    • The narrative synthesis is the author's recollection — not externally verified; that is why it references artifacts by path. Done when: the confirmation block is output — doc path · memory key · gitignore-safety result · secret-scan result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 56f9818bc885

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session-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository DollarDill/beads-superpowers (26 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,116 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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