handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter. It costs 70 tokens per session (927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-saving method that records the current project context, decisions, unresolved questions, and concrete next steps in a project file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save a handoff, resume work later, record why choices were made, and avoid repeating discarded approaches.
Why use it?
It prevents important reasoning and progress from being lost between work sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to save a handoff, resume work later, record why choices were made, and avoid repeating discarded approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter/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 janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter

Made for: Claude Code, 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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Your own site
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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 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 $0.00070 $0.00927
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00093

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0bbcf5908614, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

orchestrator/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff — Save Session State

You save the current work state so the next session can continue seamlessly. No context is lost.

Core Principles

  1. Write for your future self — assume NOTHING from this session is known
  2. Decisions with reasoning — not just WHAT, but WHY
  3. Record discarded alternatives — prevents repetition
  4. Concrete next steps — specific enough to start immediately

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Project

Which project was active in this session?

Existing state file?

ls ~/.claude/orchestrator/projects/
  • Yes: Load and update state file
  • No: Create new state from template

Determine project name:

  • Derive from context (directory, topic, user input)
  • Use kebab-case: my-project, research-topic, feature-name

Step 2: Summarize Session

Analyze the current session and extract:

2a. Active Context (MOST IMPORTANT section)

  • Where are we right now? (2-5 bullet points)
  • What was the main topic?
  • What was achieved?
  • What is the immediate next step?

2b. Decisions For EACH decision made in this session:

  • What was chosen?
  • Why? (1-2 sentences reasoning)
  • Which alternatives were discarded and why?

2c. Open Questions

  • What remained unclear?
  • What needs to be decided next session?
  • Where are there uncertainties?

2d. Next Steps

  • Prioritized list of concrete actions
  • Specific enough to start immediately
  • First action should be doable without further questions

2e. Relevant Files

  • Which files were created/modified?
  • Which files are important for continued work?

Step 3: Write State File

Save/update state file at:

~/.claude/orchestrator/projects/<projectname>.md

Template:

# Project: [Name]

## Active Context
- [Current state point 1]
- [Current state point 2]

## Decision Trail
### [Date] — [Decision Title]
- **Chosen:** [What]
- **Reasoning:** [Why]
- **Discarded:** [Alternatives and why not]

## Open Questions
- [ ] [Question 1]
- [ ] [Question 2]

## Next Steps
1. [Highest priority action]
2. [Second priority action]
3. [Third priority action]

## Relevant Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `path/to/file` | [What it contains] |

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 10d ago First seen · 140 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 0bbcf5908614

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 927 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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