handoff

handoff is a skill for Codex from jkomyno/.dotfiles. It costs 40 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that writes a self-contained prompt for continuing unfinished work in a later coding session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare the next session with the repository, branch, pull request, relevant files, checks, and a clear completion condition.
Why use it?
It prevents important context, current state, blockers, and next steps from being lost when a session ends.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to prepare the next session with the repository, branch, pull request, relevant files, checks, and a clear completion condition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/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 jkomyno/.dotfiles --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jkomyno/.dotfiles

Made for: 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 handoff

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jkomyno/.dotfiles/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00040 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 10d ago against content hash e4f40417d124, 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.

target/home/.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

Write a self-contained continuation prompt when work must continue in another session. If the requested work is complete, say so instead of inventing more work.

Output Contract

  1. Start with What's next: <tl;dr>. State the current result and single next move in one sentence.
  2. Put the next prompt in a fenced block. Name the repository, branch, PR, key files, verified state, blockers, and done-when condition. Point to the repository's AGENTS.md instead of copying its conventions.
  3. Add a short state block only when work remains: branch, PR, failing checks, blockers, and files still being edited.

Rules

  • Save a reusable lesson to agentmemory before the handoff only when the repository guidance permits memory writes. Store the pattern, evidence path, and verification command; never store secrets or transcript dumps.
  • Suggest ship-it only when implementation is complete but publication, merge, tagging, or promotion remains.
  • Keep the next prompt under roughly 150 words. Link existing context when available; ask before creating a tracked or local context file unless the user already authorized that write.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 32 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e4f40417d124

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository jkomyno/.dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 301 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.