handoffs-tidy

handoffs-tidy is a skill for Claude Code from flurdy/agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup command for handoff notes: short records that explain ongoing work to another session or developer. It archives notes that are superseded, finished, abandoned, or too old to classify.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify completed or stale work, confirm which notes can be retired, and move them into a searchable archive.
Why use it?
It keeps the handoff list focused on live work without permanently deleting older records.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It helps identify completed or stale work, confirm which notes can be retired, and move them into a searchable archive.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flurdy/agent-skills/handoffs-tidy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add flurdy/agent-skills --skill handoffs-tidy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,971 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00051 $0.02971
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00297

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3bc9292553d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoffs-tidy 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 9d 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/handoffs-tidy/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoffs-tidy — retire handoffs that no longer point at live work

Keep ~/.claude/handoffs/ focused on live threads. Handoffs go stale three ways, and the common one isn't supersede:

  • Superseded — a newer handoff continues the same thread (same branch / topic / same-day re-wrap).
  • Done — the work shipped: its PR merged, every referenced bead is closed, the branch landed, or its Jira ticket is Done. These are usually never re-wrapped, so nothing supersedes them — they just sit in the picker looking 🟢 live until you notice the work is long gone.
  • Stale — abandoned: the PR was closed unmerged, or the branch is gone with no merge evidence.
  • Old and signal-less — unknown branch liveness with no usable PR signal or resolvable beads. Age only earns an assisted question; it never makes the handoff an automatic archive candidate.

This command finds all four and archives the ones you confirm. A recent handoff is retained even when finished or stale; superseded rows are the sole immediate exception. Nothing is deleted — archived files move to ~/.claude/handoffs/archive/ and stay greppable.

Run it ad-hoc whenever the picker feels noisy, or right after a /wrap-up. It is the standalone twin of /handoffs's opt-in archive step (§3b): same list.sh classification, same archive flow — shared verbatim via REFERENCE.md — but with no full table, no picker, and no resume step. It only ever offers candidates; it never touches a live or open-PR row.

Earlier versions only found superseded handoffs (it ran list.sh with no flags and looked at one field). That's why it rarely found anything — supersede is the narrowest signal. From v0.2.0 it runs the full liveness pass, so finished-but-never-re-wrapped handoffs finally surface.

When to use

  • After a /wrap-up whose handoff continued an earlier thread, or whose work has now shipped.
  • Periodically, when /handoffs shows entries you've moved past — merged PRs, closed beads, dead branches.
  • Not needed if you keep only one live handoff per topic and archive as you go.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 9d ago First seen · 195 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 3bc9292553d4

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handoffs-tidy is a skill published in the GitHub repository flurdy/agent-skills (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,971 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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