handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 40 tokens per session (269 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A handoff-document helper that summarises the current conversation for another coding agent or a fresh session. It saves the document outside the project workspace and points to existing files instead of copying them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transfer unfinished work, decisions, and next steps to another session or agent.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from losing important context when work changes hands. It also reduces duplicated or sensitive content by referencing existing artifacts and removing secrets and personal information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mattpocock plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to transfer unfinished work, decisions, and next steps to another session or agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/handoff
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills.

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

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00040 $0.00269
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00108
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00027

Measured 23d ago against content hash 568451cb26d9, 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 23d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to handoff — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mattpocock/skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, naming which skills the next agent should call the Skill tool for.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

CRITICAL: Reference, don't duplicate — and redact

Do not copy content already captured in specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, or diffs — reference them by path or URL instead. Redact API keys, passwords, and personally identifiable information. Save to the OS temporary directory, never the workspace.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 23d ago First seen · 21 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 568451cb26d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (594 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to handoff, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.