handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fmind/dot. It costs 17 tokens per session (908 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-handoff procedure that records enough project state for another coding session or tool to continue work. It saves a continuation prompt and can copy it to the clipboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before ending a session, switching coding tools, or asking another agent to continue. It captures objectives, corrections, file paths, logs, and handles for running work.
Why use it?
It removes the need to explain the task again after clearing a session or changing tools. It preserves current Git state, running processes, decisions, failed approaches, and the next step.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it before ending a session, switching coding tools, or asking another agent to continue. It captures objectives, corrections, file paths, logs, and handles for running work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmind/dot/handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fmind/dot --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 908 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 $0.00017 $0.00908
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00363
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00091

Measured 9d ago against content hash 173285200365, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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/handoff/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Treat /handoff as "I am about to clear this session or move to another harness; let the next one continue without me re-explaining." It writes a continuation in the task-prompts format, saves it, and copies it with clipboard. Arguments can name a focus, a receiving harness, or pointer to copy only the file reference. Native resume (claude --resume, codex resume or codex fork to branch, agy -c or agy --conversation <id>) is better when the same harness continues with the full history.

Workflow

  1. Freeze the state: git status --short --branch, git rev-parse --short HEAD, staged versus unstaged work, worktrees, and anything still running: background shells, servers, monitors, subagents, scheduled wakeups. Stop nothing; record what is running, its handle or PID, and how to check on it.

  2. Write the continuation from the prompt template. When space is short, keep in this order: objective and authority, the user's latest corrections and rejected approaches (quoted when the wording matters), current state with proof and the next step as an imperative, failed approaches, then the paths, logs, and running-work handles the next session needs, citing paths and lines instead of pasting code. Omit tool narration, passing logs, and anything the repository or AGENTS.md already states. Write it for a reader without this conversation; never include secrets or private passages. End with this fixed block, because the receiving session will not have this skill loaded:

    ## Resume
    
    Read this whole file. Compare `git status --short --branch` and `git rev-parse --short HEAD` with the recorded state and report any drift before acting. Reuse recorded proof only while its inputs are unchanged, start at the next step, and keep the recorded authority boundaries. Delete this file once the work lands; it is task-owned scratch.
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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 Changed 173285200365
  2. 11d ago Changed a2a6fbfc1767
  3. 12d ago First seen · 47 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 00671f5d0fd4

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dot (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 908 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-05.

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