project-handoff

project-handoff is a skill for Cursor from gleanwork/cursor-plugins. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,953 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of project-handoff, MIT.

A process for writing a project handoff document for the person who will take over a project. It collects the current state, important people, background knowledge, unfinished work, and an initial plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when transferring responsibility for a project and need to explain its status, contacts, open items, essential context, and first 30 days.
Why use it?
It reduces the information a new owner must discover through scattered conversations, documents, and project history.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the glean plugin — 19 skills, 10 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when transferring responsibility for a project and need to explain its status, contacts, open items, essential context, and first 30 days.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/project-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/cursor-plugins --skill project-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins

Made for: Cursor.

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

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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00105 $0.01953
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00781
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00195

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 99224b4a3ac3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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

100% identical to project-handoff — 0 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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 204 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 99224b4a3ac3

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project-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,953 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to project-handoff, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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