handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from edimuj/claude-mneme. It costs 55 tokens per session (290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for creating a short briefing that records the current session's state, decisions, next steps, and blockers for a later session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, handing work to another session, or saving notes about unfinished implementation and decisions.
Why use it?
It preserves useful context when work stops so the next session can resume without reconstructing the discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-mneme plugin — 7 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when ending a session, handing work to another session, or…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add edimuj/claude-mneme
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-mneme

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mneme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 hooks.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 290 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 $0.00055 $0.00290
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00145
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00029

Measured 6d ago against content hash c6d509007dab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

plugin/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Create a briefing from the current session context. Pipe JSON to stdin:

echo '<json>' | node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/mem-handoff.mjs"

Required field: summary (1-3 sentences). Optional: keyDecisions[], currentState, nextSteps[], blockers[], context.

{
  "summary": "Implemented auth middleware with JWT tokens, added refresh endpoint and tests.",
  "keyDecisions": ["JWT over session tokens — stateless, scales with API gateway"],
  "currentState": "Auth working and tested. Rate limiting exists but not wired up.",
  "nextSteps": ["Wire rate limiting", "Add token revocation endpoint"],
  "blockers": ["CORS preflight issue with staging gateway — needs DevOps"]
}

Only include fields with meaningful content. Be specific and actionable. If user provided notes after /handoff, incorporate them. Replaces any previous unsent briefing. Auto-injected and archived at next session start.

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. 6d ago First seen · 26 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c6d509007dab

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository edimuj/claude-mneme (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 290 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.

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