handover

handover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jazzyalex/agent-sessions. It costs 71 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff tool that records the current state of a coding project in a dated RepoHandover.md file at the repository root. A repository is the project folder containing its code and related files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing, ending, or checkpointing a coding session to record the current status, decisions, and useful files.
Why use it?
It gives a future agent a short checkpoint to resume from without searching through old sessions or repeating work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when pausing, ending, or checkpointing a coding session to record the current status, decisions, and useful files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jazzyalex/agent-sessions/handover
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 jazzyalex/agent-sessions --skill handover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jazzyalex/agent-sessions

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.

agentmods badge for handover

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jazzyalex/agent-sessions/handover.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jazzyalex/agent-sessions/handover)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jazzyalex/agent-sessions/handover"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jazzyalex/agent-sessions/handover.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 41
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 63
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00071 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash f33554a87810, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handover 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (handover-lint.sh, install.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.

tools/handover/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handover

Append a short, dated entry to RepoHandover.md at the repo root (newest-first) capturing where things stand, so you or a future agent can resume. Keep it lean — a handful of lines, no git audit. The user already opted in by running /handover, so draft and write it directly — do NOT ask for approval or show a draft to confirm. Just write, report one line, and stop. Never commit.

Procedure

  1. Draft from the conversation — do NOT run a git audit. You already know what happened this session. At most, run a single git branch --show-current if you want the branch in the header. Do not run git status/log/diff sweeps — that's the verbosity we removed.

  2. Compose a short entry in this format. Omit any line/section that would be empty. Aim for ~8–15 lines total:

     ## <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM> · <slug> · <title>
     status: in-progress            # in-progress | blocked | done
    
     **State:** <one sentence — where things stand right now>
    
     **Decided / don't redo:**      <only if there is something>
     - <a decision made, or a dead-end already tried>
    
     **Key files:**                 <only if it helps resume>
     - `path` — <why it matters>
    
     **Next:**
     1. <the next concrete step>
     2. <...>
    
    • slug = the branch or plan/spec name (keep it stable — supersede-matching uses it).
    • Timestamp: date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'.
  3. Write it immediately — no approval prompt.

    • New file → create RepoHandover.md with this entry as its only content.

    • Existing file → prepend the entry above the current top entry (blank line between). Don't touch older entries except the silent supersede below.

    • Ensure the repo's CLAUDE.md contains this pointer (add it once, creating a short CLAUDE.md if absent):

         > Before starting work, read the newest entry in `RepoHandover.md`.
      
    • Silent supersede: if an older entry has the same slug and its status isn't already done or superseded-by:, change that older entry's status line to status: superseded-by:<new-entry-date> (one-line edit; leave its prose alone). No prompt.

    • Never run git commit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 68 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A f33554a87810

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handover is a skill published in the GitHub repository jazzyalex/agent-sessions (846 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.