project-handoff

A document that explains a project's current state, important people, essential knowledge, open work, and a plan for a new person’s first 30 days.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when handing a project to a new owner who needs context, contacts, background, and an actionable starting plan.
Why use it?
It reduces the information gap when someone takes over a project and makes unfinished work and next steps easier to find.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the glean plugin — 19 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/gleanwork/claude-plugins/project-handoff
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/claude-plugins --skill project-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install glean, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,953 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 $0.00105 $0.01953
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00977
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00195

Measured 3d ago against content hash 99224b4a3ac3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 3d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/glean/skills/project-handoff/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Handoff

Generate a comprehensive handoff document so someone new can take over a project. Gather everything they'd need: current state, the people who matter, tribal knowledge, open items, and a concrete ramp-up plan.

Determine the project from the user's request. If no project is clear, ask which project they mean before proceeding.

This is the heavyweight counterpart to the project-awareness skill (quick status reads). Use that one if the user just wants current status.

Tools

This skill drives the standard Glean MCP tools. If the host exposes the project-synthesizer agent, use it for project research. Otherwise delegate to a suitable research subagent when subagents are available, or gather the same material directly. For the param shape and pitfalls of search, chat, meeting_lookup, and employee_search, see the using-glean reference at using-glean/reference/. If no Glean tools are visible, ask the user to set up Glean by prompting the harness (for example, Set up Glean for me).

Core Principles

  • Complete context: include everything needed to take over
  • Actionable items: clear next steps and open items
  • Tribal knowledge: capture what's not in docs
  • Be skeptical: not every doc found is relevant to a handoff
  • Quality over quantity: focus on what the new owner actually needs

Phase 1: Gather current context

Understand the project's current state.

  1. Ask the user for handoff context:
    • Their role on the project (Owner/Lead, Contributor, Advisor/Stakeholder)
    • What's driving the handoff (new role/team, PTO coverage, reorg, leaving)
  2. Use project-synthesizer when available; otherwise delegate to a suitable research subagent if possible, or gather the material directly. Cover documentation, people and their roles, recent meetings and decisions, and current status / open items.

Phase 2: Gather undocumented knowledge

Capture tribal knowledge not in formal docs. Ask the current owner:

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 3d ago First seen · 204 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 99224b4a3ac3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/claude-plugins (25 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,953 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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