handing-off-work

handing-off-work is a skill for Claude Code from FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A closed-loop briefing that transfers unfinished work and responsibility to another person or AI agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when work moves to a new owner, including an AI agent, reviewer, verifier, release worker, or resumed conversation.
Why use it?
It prevents the new owner from guessing what changed, what remains, what they may do, or when they must stop.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nuclear-grade plugin — 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents 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/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/handing-off-work
Any agent
npx skills add FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering --skill handing-off-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nuclear-grade, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,173 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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01173
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00587
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 6d ago against content hash 024a48f60001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handing-off-work 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.

skills/handing-off-work/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handing Off Work

Overview

A handoff transfers responsibility, not just context. The next person or agent has to know what changed, what is left, what they are allowed to do, and when to stop.

Decision contract

  • Claim checked: the receiving owner can resume without the chat history -- the last finished action, changed conditions, remaining scope, authority limits, open evidence, and stop conditions are all stated -- and the owner has restated scope, authority, proof owed, and when to stop before acting.
  • Artifact observed: the change-record path, current phase, mode, the done/changed/assumed/open state, and the authority limits -> a turnover.md with the resume point, what changed, what remains, the next decision gate, and the incoming owner's confirmation.
  • Decision affected: block -- whether the receiving owner may resume, or must hold and re-question first.
  • Failure class: open-loop-handoff (state only implied, or the owner acts before confirming scope and stop conditions).
  • Next action: make the incoming owner restate scope, authority, and stop conditions first; escalate when credentials, production data, or release authority are involved.

When to Use

  • Another agent, a reviewer, a verifier, a releaser, or a support owner will keep working.
  • A long thread is being picked up again after the context changed.
  • Work has open evidence, decisions not yet made, or limits on what the owner may do.
  • Release work, incident work, or a lesson from real operation (OPEX) has to move to another owner.

When Not to Use

  • The work is done and the change record already holds the evidence and the decision.
  • A tiny Quick change needs only a diff and a proof note.
  • The request is just to summarize a file, with no transfer of responsibility.
  • The next owner only needs a focused brief to start or resume, with no open-work state to carry over -- use briefing-an-agent instead.

Inputs

  • The change-record path, the current phase, and the chosen mode.
  • The work that is done, the conditions that changed, the assumptions still in play, and the open gaps.
  • Allowed files, commands, and tools; actions that are off limits; the evidence still owed; and when to stop.
  • The next owner and their role: reviewer, verifier, or releaser.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 024a48f60001

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handing-off-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,173 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 2026-08-30.

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