handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit. It costs 84 tokens per session (452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A resume note for recording the current state of unfinished work so a new coding session can continue without repeating the earlier discussion.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps pause and resume tasks, especially when using a separate pickup command to restore the saved working state.
Why use it?
It prevents important context—such as changed files, decisions, and the next action—from being lost when work moves to a fresh session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the harness-kit plugin — 18 skills, 28 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps pause and resume tasks, especially when using a separate pickup command to restore the saved working state.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit
Claude Code
/plugin install harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 28 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 452 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 $0.00084 $0.00452
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00045

Measured 10d ago against content hash 807e1742fb4d, 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

handoff

Capture EVERYTHING a fresh session needs to resume — it has none of your current context, so be concrete (paths, commands, the original ask verbatim), not vague.

  1. Locate the target. If there is an active spec (a specs/<date>-*/context.md matching this work), write into its ## 0. Resume here block. Otherwise write .claude/handoff.md.
  2. Fill the resume block (replace it idempotently — don't stack copies):
    • Original ask (verbatim): the user's actual request, not your paraphrase.
    • Phase / N of M: where in the plan you are.
    • Files touched: the real paths changed so far (git status --short).
    • Next command: the exact next action (a command, or "edit X to do Y").
    • In-flight decisions: anything decided but not yet obvious from the code.
    • Don't redo: work already done that a fresh session might wrongly repeat.
  3. Use the marked-block updater so a re-handoff replaces the block: printf '%s' "$BLOCK" | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/introspect/update-block.sh" <file> '<!-- resume:start' '<!-- resume:end -->'
  4. Print the exact /harness-kit:pickup command to run in the fresh session.

A handoff is only as good as a fresh session's ability to resume from it ALONE — write for a reader who saw none of this.

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 · 33 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 807e1742fb4d

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 452 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 2026-08-31.

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