Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jordanhindo/lorenpx agentmods add skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-handoffWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-handoff)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jordanhindo/lore/lore-handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00064 | $0.00366 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00183 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
lore-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 8d 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.
What it actually says
Lore Handoff
Use this skill when the next agent needs to pick up work safely without reading raw transcript soup.
Workflow
- Use
lore-recallto gather bounded evidence and status. - Reuse
lore-brief/references/proposal-vocabulary.mdfor proposals, memory-card candidates, and contradictions. - Emit compact sections:
verified,open,stale,risky,artifacts,proposals,memoryCardCandidates,contradictionCandidates, andnextActions. - Mark uncited/open claims explicitly; do not smooth uncertainty into certainty.
- If evidence is stale, tell the next agent to inspect current files, tests, or runtime state before acting.
Rules
- Do not dump transcript blocks or page whole sessions.
- Every claim, artifact, and next action cites
evidenceIdsor is markeduncited:true. - Preserve risky assumptions, unresolved questions, and contradictions with both sides cited.
- Use shared proposal, memory-card, and contradiction shapes; do not invent private
todoListor mutation objects. - Handoff may recommend next actions but does not perform them.
Validation
node skills/lore-handoff/scripts/validate-handoff.mjs skills/lore-handoff/examples/good-handoff.json
node skills/lore-dev-verification/scripts/validate-workflow-skill.mjs skills/lore-handoff
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 1f13682d4144
lore-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository jordanhindo/lore (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 366 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 2026-08-30.
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