clio-kit-context-handoff

clio-kit-context-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from iowarp/clio-kit. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,946 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A durable session summary that records enough project state for another coding session or agent to continue after the current context is lost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session or before context is shortened to write a handoff that a later session can read with the context-prime workflow.
Why use it?
It avoids rereading an entire conversation and preserves the work's intent, decisions, and next steps in a redacted form.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the clio-coder-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when ending a session or before context is shortened to write a handoff that a later session can read with the context-prime workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iowarp/clio-kit/clio-kit-context-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 iowarp/clio-kit --skill clio-kit-context-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iowarp/clio-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clio-coder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,946 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 $0.00083 $0.01946
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00778
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00195

Measured 9d ago against content hash 18ca9fa14b4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clio-kit-context-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/new-handoff.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/clio-coder-skills/skills/clio-kit-context-handoff/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Host compatibility

This copy is adapted from Clio Coder. Apply the procedure using the current host's available tools and the user's authorized scope. The tool names, /skill invocations, .clio-coder paths, fleets, approval gates and completion gates below describe Clio Coder; they are not installed or enforced by this skill in another host. Use the host's actual skill invocation and equivalent tools. If no equivalent exists, report the missing capability. Do not assume a tool is unavailable merely because the original headless workflow says so. A referenced agent or skill must be installed before relying on it. Scientific MCPs must be configured separately.

Adapted skills use the clio-kit- prefix to distinguish them from upstream audited skills. For a companion skill named below, select its clio-kit- copy from this collection; native agents, fleets and external programs retain their original names.

Context Handoff

Write a durable brief so a fresh session continues the work without re-reading the whole transcript. This is the write-side bookend of context-prime, which reads what this produces.

Distinct from two things it is often confused with:

  • /context compact summarizes within the current session; it is ephemeral and lost when the process exits. A handoff is a file that outlives the session.
  • /handoff <goal> is the built-in that writes a quick handoff file from the live session; this skill is the fuller authored version with redaction and reference-not-copy discipline.
  • /resume restores a session's transcript. A handoff carries intent: decisions, rationale, and blockers that a transcript alone makes expensive to recover.

When to use

  • A long session is ending and work resumes later or in another context.
  • Context is near its limit and about to be compacted away.
  • The user asks for a handoff, brief, or "what should the next session know."

Arguments

/skill clio-kit-context-handoff [<focus>[: <slug>]]

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 176 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 18ca9fa14b4c

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clio-kit-context-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository iowarp/clio-kit (30 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,946 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-08.

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