dw-handoff

dw-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from dominikwozniak/dw-solo-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,025 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff record for an unfinished coding task. It saves current progress, uncommitted changes, decisions, and approaches that have already been ruled out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or replace a HANDOFF.md file beside the task's change record when pausing work.
Why use it?
It gives the next working session the context needed to continue mid-task instead of repeating investigation or losing important details.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to write or replace a HANDOFF.md file beside the task's change record when pausing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dominikwozniak/dw-solo-skills/dw-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 dominikwozniak/dw-solo-skills --skill dw-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dominikwozniak/dw-solo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,025 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 $0.00060 $0.01025
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 5d ago against content hash e81de5b1f3e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dw-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 5d 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/dw-handoff/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dw-handoff — the middle of a task, saved

CHANGE.md already survives a /clear at task granularity. This skill covers the gap that leaves — the middle of a task, where a checkbox cannot say which three approaches you already ruled out — and holds only that: decisions belong in CHANGE.md, traps in ## Gotchas, follow-ups in the backlog.

Output location

.ai/work/<date>-<slug>/HANDOFF.md, beside the CHANGE.md it describes. .ai/ is tracked in git.

Find the change by branch, the same way the rest of the loop does:

grep -l "^branch: $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)$" .ai/work/*/CHANGE.md 2>/dev/null
  • One match — write beside it.
  • Several — list them and ask.
  • Nonestop and write nothing. A handoff needs a change to attach to; say so and point at dw-shape. An exploratory session with nothing shaped yet is what that skill is for.
  • Detached HEAD (the branch resolves to the literal HEAD) — say so, list every CHANGE.md under .ai/work/ with its recorded branch:, and ask which one this belongs to.

One live handoff per change. An existing HANDOFF.md is overwritten, never appended to — a second handoff describes a newer moment, and keeping both leaves the next session guessing which one is current. dw-next deletes it once it has ticked the task it described.

Workflow

1. Name the task in flight

Take the change from the grep above and, from its checklist, the task this handoff is about — usually the first unticked one, but confirm it against what the session actually did rather than assuming. State it in one line before writing anything, so a wrong guess is caught here.

2. Gather what the change doc can't hold

Four things, each grounded in something you can point at — a file:line, a command you ran, an error you saw:

  • How far into the task you actually are.
  • What is applied but not committed — from git status --short and git diff --stat, read, not recalled.
  • The dead ends already ruled out, each with the reason it failed. This is the line that earns the file: it is the work the next session would otherwise repeat.
  • The single next concrete move.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines e81de5b1f3e3
  2. 8d ago Changed 3e05b5de23ff
  3. 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 9cac1f112568

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dw-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository dominikwozniak/dw-solo-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,025 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.