handoff-update

handoff-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 60 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that updates an existing coding-session handoff document while preserving its history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Maintaining progress notes across multiple sessions when work continues after an earlier handoff.
Why use it?
It keeps completed work and discoveries intact while refreshing the current status, files, and next steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the session-tools plugin — 8 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 plugin shipped together

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/florianbruniaux/claude-code-plugins/handoff-update
Any agent
npx skills add FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins --skill handoff-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install session-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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-update

README.md
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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 582 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00060 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00058

Measured today against content hash 6bd4d8c71e18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-update 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.

plugins/session-tools/skills/handoff-update/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update an existing handoff document with this session's progress.

Step 1: Resolve the Handoff File

Determine which file to update, in this priority order:

  1. If $ARGUMENTS[0] was provided, use it as the file path.
  2. If this session was started via /handoff:resume, look in conversation history for the argument that was passed to it.
  3. If neither is found, fall back to creating a new file: claudedocs/handoffs/handoff_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.md. Inform the user that no existing handoff was found.

Step 2: Read the Existing File

Read the resolved file completely. Parse all sections as the baseline for the merge.

Step 3: Apply Section Merge Rules

Rewrite the file with updated content using these merge rules:

Section Rule Notes
Task Keep original Update only if scope fundamentally changed
Scope Keep or refine Narrow it if new understanding emerged
Files Merge Add new files touched in this session. Keep originals. Use path:line format
Discoveries Append Add new findings below existing list. Never remove prior discoveries
Work Done Append only Add new completed items below existing list. Never remove entries. Include commit hashes
Status Replace Write the current state: what is done now, what remains, test status
Next Steps Replace Write the updated actionable checklist
Code Update Replace with the most relevant snippets from the current state

The append-only rule for Work Done is strict. Even if a previous entry describes work that was later revised, keep it. The history is the record. Add a new entry describing the revision instead of removing the old one.

Step 4: Confirm

After saving, confirm:

  • File path updated
  • How many new Work Done items were added
  • The updated Status (one line)
  • How many Next Steps remain

This command implements the Handoff Triad pattern documented in this guide's Session Handoff Pattern section. Template inspired by Packmind's handoff commands (Apache 2.0).

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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 · 52 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6bd4d8c71e18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 582 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 2026-09-04.

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