create-handoff-prompt

create-handoff-prompt is a skill for Codex from hon454/grimoire. It costs 49 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning the current conversation into a self-contained handoff prompt. A handoff prompt gives another task or person the decisions, status, open questions, and next steps they need.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a copy-ready prompt for a selected topic, while preserving the relevant reasoning, unresolved issues, and boundaries.
Why use it?
It avoids making someone reconstruct the background from a long conversation or missing context.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to prepare a copy-ready prompt for a selected topic, while preserving the relevant reasoning, unresolved issues, and boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hon454/grimoire/create-handoff-prompt
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 hon454/grimoire --skill create-handoff-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hon454/grimoire

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00049 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 8d ago against content hash 56cab58d78c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-handoff-prompt 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 8d 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.

plugins/grimoire/skills/create-handoff-prompt/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Handoff Prompt

Create a prompt the user can paste into another task without requiring access to this conversation.

This is an explicit-invocation workflow. Invoke it as $create-handoff-prompt, optionally followed by the topic or outcome to transfer.

Before composing, read ../../references/handoff-composition.md completely and apply its shared contract.

Select The Scope

  • Follow an explicit focus supplied with the invocation.
  • If that focus is absent from the conversation or lacks enough source context for an accurate handoff, ask one concise missing-context question and stop.
  • With no focus, use the active topic only when it is unambiguous.
  • If multiple topics or referents are plausible, ask one concise scope question and stop.
  • Exclude unselected topics instead of compressing the whole conversation.

Stay Within The Conversation

Treat the selected conversation as the default source. This is not a research or task-management skill.

  • Inspect only artifacts explicitly referenced in the conversation, and only when needed for accuracy.
  • Do not automatically explore repositories, browse the web, run tests, inspect tasks, search for a destination, send messages, or navigate between tasks.
  • Do not claim the receiving task can see this conversation.
  • Do not identify a destination. The user chooses it by pasting the result.

Compose And Output

Compose a self-contained payload under the shared contract. After the payload is complete, let M be the longest run of consecutive backticks anywhere in it (0 when none), and set the outer fence length to N = max(4, M + 1).

Return exactly one outer fenced code block:

  1. Start at column 1 with exactly N backticks followed immediately by markdown and nothing else.
  2. Put the unchanged payload on the following lines. Preserve every internal backtick or tilde fence literally.
  3. Close on the line after the payload with exactly N backticks and nothing else.

Use backticks, never tildes, for the outer fence. Write nothing outside it. Do not save a file or write to the clipboard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 56cab58d78c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-handoff-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository hon454/grimoire (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 543 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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