fable-handoff

fable-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured session handoff method for recording decisions, verified evidence, blockers, changed files, and the next safe action. It is designed so another agent or developer can resume without repeating the investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to checkpoint long-running tasks, transfer unfinished work, and document failed attempts or dirty working trees.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work pauses, moves between people, or exceeds a session's context window.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the get-fable plugin — 78 skills, 1 agent, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to checkpoint long-running tasks, transfer unfinished work, and document failed attempts or dirty working trees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/immamdouhaboammar/get-fable/fable-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 imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable --skill fable-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install get-fable, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 1 agent, 5 hooks.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,619 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 $0.00117 $0.01619
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00809
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00162

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5740d8845d96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-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 7d 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.

skills/fable-handoff/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable Handoff

Leave enough verified context that another agent can resume the work without replaying the whole conversation or rediscovering the repository.

Mission

A handoff is not a summary. It is a resumption contract.

The receiving agent should know what was requested, what was actually changed, which claims are proven, which evidence is stale or missing, what is currently blocked, and the first safe action to take next.

Activate When

  • pausing a long-running task;
  • transferring work to another agent/human/session;
  • context is becoming too large and needs durable compaction;
  • a release/PR remains incomplete but execution must stop;
  • an automation/cowork loop needs a durable checkpoint.

Do Not Activate When

  • there is nothing durable to preserve beyond a trivial completed turn;
  • the next action itself is unclear because planning/diagnosis is unfinished;
  • a handoff would be used to hide missing verification or unresolved failure.

Continuity Classification

State Handoff emphasis
Clean completed card exact evidence + next card
Dirty worktree owned vs unrelated changes + safe resume point
Failed attempt reproduction, attempts, revised/remaining hypotheses
Review pending diff/base, findings, verification state
Release pending candidate SHA/version, channel states, external blockers
Research/discovery pending measured facts, unresolved load-bearing questions
Delegated work pending worker ownership, returned/missing packets

Protocol

Stage 1 — Reconstruct the durable task

Capture the original/current user outcome in one concise statement. Separate it from implementation tactics discovered later.

Stage 2 — Snapshot exact repository/work state

Record when available:

  • branch/worktree and candidate commit SHA;
  • active card/phase;
  • files/surfaces intentionally changed;
  • unrelated user changes that must be preserved;
  • generated artifacts/state files intentionally not committed;
  • open PR/issues/release/tag identifiers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 185 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 5740d8845d96

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fable-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,619 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-05.

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