handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drvoss/everything-copilot-cli. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A compact Markdown handoff document for transferring unfinished work to another session, agent, machine, or collaborator. It records the current state, open questions, and next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing unfinished work, changing agents or machines, or preparing a reviewer or implementer to continue a task.
Why use it?
It prevents the next person or session from having to reconstruct important context from a long chat history. It preserves decisions that have not yet been recorded in project files.

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/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 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 $0.00040 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00158

Measured today against content hash 6d9738c934db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 today.

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/workflow/handoff/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Handoff turns the current state of work into a portable markdown brief that another session, agent, or collaborator can pick up quickly.

The goal is not "summarize everything." The goal is to capture only the information that would otherwise be expensive to rediscover.

When to Use

  • You are ending a session but the work is not actually finished
  • Another agent, model, or machine will continue the task
  • The conversation contains decisions that are not yet reflected in committed files
  • A reviewer or implementer needs a compact state-of-play document

When NOT to Use

Instead of handoff Use
Continuing the same Copilot CLI session later cross-session-memory or /resume
Recording durable project guidance for everyone knowledge-curator
Writing a committed spec, ADR, PRD, or issue the destination artifact itself

Workflow

1. Clarify what the next session is for

Start with one sentence:

  • what the next session should accomplish
  • what is already done
  • what remains uncertain

If the user gave a follow-up goal, tailor the handoff around that goal instead of the whole conversation.

2. Pick a portable file path

Prefer a temporary markdown file outside the repo unless the user explicitly wants a committed file.

Examples:

# PowerShell
$path = Join-Path $env:TEMP ("handoff-" + [System.Guid]::NewGuid().ToString("N") + ".md")
# POSIX shell
path="$(mktemp -t handoff-XXXXXX.md)"

If a path already exists, read it before overwriting.

3. Reference artifacts instead of duplicating them

Do not restate content that already lives in:

  • a plan
  • an issue
  • a PR
  • an ADR
  • a committed file
  • a benchmark result

Link to those artifacts by path, URL, or commit hash and explain only why they matter.

3-A. Redact sensitive data before saving

Before writing the handoff document, actively redact sensitive data in the captured context:

  • API keys, tokens, or credentials -> [REDACTED]
  • Passwords or secrets -> [REDACTED]
  • PII in sensitive context -> [REDACTED]
  • Internal-only URLs or endpoints -> [INTERNAL URL]

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. today First seen · 239 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 6d9738c934db

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,575 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 2026-09-03.

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