handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from ils15/pantheon-legacy. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,111 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template and process for writing a handoff document when work needs to continue in another session. It records status, completed work, remaining tasks, decisions, and lessons in a designated memory folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when switching machines, ending an incomplete session, recovering from a crash, or starting fresh while keeping the same project context.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work and important reasoning from being lost during a session change or interruption.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when switching machines, ending an incomplete session, recovering from a crash, or starting fresh while keeping the same project context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ils15/pantheon-legacy/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 ils15/pantheon-legacy --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ils15/pantheon-legacy

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,111 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00018 $0.01111
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00556
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00111

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4b9dffdc6c70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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.

.clinerules/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff — Session Continuation Summary

Use this skill to generate a structured handoff summary when transitioning work to a new session.

Policy-safe storage: keep handoffs in /memories/session/ during the conversation. Do not create ad-hoc .md files in the repository root.


When to Use

  • Session is ending but work is incomplete
  • Computer crash or logout mid-feature
  • Switching to a different machine
  • User wants to start fresh but continue the same work
  • Context window is getting full and a fresh session would help

Handoff Format

# Handoff: <Feature Name>

## Current Status
- Wave N completed (<description>)
- Wave N+1 pending (<description>)
- Current task: <what was being worked on>

## What Was Completed
- <file/path> — <what was implemented>
- <file/path> — <what was implemented>
- <file/path> — <what was implemented>

## Remaining Work
- <remaining task 1>
- <remaining task 2>
- <remaining task 3>

## Key Decisions
- <decision 1> (rationale)
- <decision 2> (rationale)

## Learnings (from wisdom accumulation)
- <convention 1>
- <gotcha 1>
- <failure to avoid 1>

## Relevant Files
- <path/to/file1>
- <path/to/file2>
- <path/to/file3>

## Tasks Status (if using Task System)
- T-001 [completed] <subject>
- T-002 [completed] <subject>
- T-003 [in_progress] <subject>
- T-004 [pending] <subject>

## Next Steps
1. <immediate next action>
2. <following action>
3. <eventual action>

How to Persist Handoff (Policy-Compliant)

When user runs /handoff:

1. Mnemosyne reads current session state
2. Mnemosyne reads /memories/session/* (if relevant)
3. Mnemosyne generates handoff summary
4. Mnemosyne saves to /memories/session/handoff-<timestamp>.md
5. Mnemosyne outputs the summary in chat
6. At sprint close, promote only durable context to .pantheon/memory-bank via explicit @mnemosyne action

How New Session Uses Handoff

When starting a new session:

1. User pastes handoff document (or references file path)
2. New session reads handoff
3. Agent resumes from "Next Steps"
4. Tasks continue from last known state
5. Learnings are re-injected

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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 First seen · 167 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 4b9dffdc6c70

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository ils15/pantheon-legacy (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,111 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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