rootnode-handoff-trigger-check

A readiness check for handing designed work from a chat to an autonomous system such as Claude Code, n8n, or another agent runtime. It evaluates seven conditions, including a stable specification, checks for correctness, work breakdown, rollback cost, and available token budget.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether a design conversation is ready for autonomous execution and to identify what must be clarified or prepared first.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing details before an automated system starts working. This lowers the chance of handing off work that cannot be verified, safely reversed, or completed within its limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drayline/rootnode-skills/rootnode-handoff-trigger-check
Any agent
npx skills add drayline/rootnode-skills --skill rootnode-handoff-trigger-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drayline/rootnode-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00209 $0.05486
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.02743
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.01097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00549

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5b91faea4da5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rootnode-handoff-trigger-check 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 2d 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.

rootnode-handoff-trigger-check/SKILL.md · 329 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 329 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 5b91faea4da5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rootnode-handoff-trigger-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository drayline/rootnode-skills (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 5,486 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.