handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from joris887/exosuit. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured record of a development session saved for later continuation. It captures the current branch, changes, pull requests, sprint progress, decisions, and blockers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a work session to document progress, update sprint information, and create a session file under `docs/sessions/`.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work stops. The continuation workflow can read the record to help resume the project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the exosuit plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joris887/exosuit/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add joris887/exosuit --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joris887/exosuit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exosuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks.

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/joris887/exosuit/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/joris887/exosuit/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joris887/exosuit/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joris887/exosuit/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00028 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00140

Measured 6d ago against content hash c6c031db703e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


handoff

Skill metrics: Emit a start event to the activity log:

echo "{\"type\":\"skill\",\"event\":\"start\",\"skill\":\"handoff\",\"ts\":\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\"}" >> docs/sessions/.activity-log.jsonl

Generate a comprehensive handoff for ending a development session:

Phase 0: Validate Prerequisites

Before starting, verify:

  • docs/sessions/ directory exists (create if missing)
  • No conflicting session file for today's date

If the directory is missing, create it silently and proceed.

1. Capture Current State

Analyze:

  • Current branch: git branch --show-current
  • Git status (uncommitted changes?)
  • Open PRs: gh pr list --author @me --state open
  • Current sprint spec (if exists: docs/sprints/sprint-*.md) — extract sprint goal, capacity used, and any decisions logged this session
  • Last entries in @docs/progress.md

2. Document Progress

If work was done this session, ensure it's captured:

  • Sprint spec updated with progress
  • Any decisions documented
  • Blockers noted

3. Generate Session File

Save a structured session file to docs/sessions/session-YYYY-MM-DD.md.

The file MUST start with YAML frontmatter for /resume searchability:

---
date: YYYY-MM-DD
sprint: [current sprint number]
sprint_goal: "[sprint goal — one sentence from sprint spec]"
sprint_capacity: "[sessions used/total — e.g., 5/8]"
branch: [branch-name]
stories: [comma-separated story IDs worked on]
status: [completed | in-progress | blocked]
---

# Session Handoff — [YYYY-MM-DD]

## Git State
- **Branch:** [branch-name]
- **Uncommitted changes:** [yes/no — list if yes]
- **PR Status:** [Open #123 / Merged / Not created]

## Work Completed
- [x] [Task/story completed]
- [ ] [Task in progress — what's done, what remains]

## Key Decisions
- [Decision]: [Rationale]

## Blockers / Issues
- [Issue]: [Status]

## Files Accessed This Session

### Modified
- [path/to/file]: [what changed and why]

### Read (context-relevant)
- [path/to/file]: [why this file was important to understand]

### Investigated (can skip on resume)
- [path/to/file]: [explored but not relevant to current work]

## Test Status
- Passing: [count]
- Failing: [count]
- Coverage: [percentage if available]

## Next Steps (Minimal First Action)
1. [The single next thing to do — be very specific]
2. [Second priority]
3. [Third priority]

## Files to Load on Resume
- @[path] — [why this file is needed]

## Activity Summary

<!-- Populated from activity log if available -->

## Warnings / Gotchas
- [Any issues the next session should be aware of]

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 6d ago First seen · 192 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A c6c031db703e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,403 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

moai-workflow-spec

SPEC workflow orchestration with EARS format requirements, acceptance criteria, and Plan-Run-Sync integration for MoAI-ADK development. Use when creating SPEC documents or defining acceptance criteria.

modu-ai/moai-adk · 44 tokens

moai-workflow-worktree

Git worktree management for parallel SPEC development with isolated workspaces, automatic branch registration, and seamless MoAI-ADK integration. Use when setting up parallel development environments.

modu-ai/moai-adk · 41 tokens

moai-kanban-foreman

One unattended kanban foreman iteration: watch the backlog queue, dispatch the next operator-picked card to an isolated worker, collect completion evidence on read (not on claims), and report. This is the body the project's loop.md driver invokes each iteration of a bare /loop; it can also be invoked directly to test…

modu-ai/moai-adk · 76 tokens

moai-workflow-templates

Template management system for code boilerplates, feedback templates, scaffolding, and project optimization workflows. Use when creating templates, generating boilerplate files, or managing scaffolding.

modu-ai/moai-adk · 41 tokens

moai-workflow-project

Integrated project management system covering documentation, language initialization, template optimization, docs generation, and JIT document loading. Absorbed from moai-workflow-templates, moai-docs-generation, and moai-workflow-jit-docs.

modu-ai/moai-adk · 55 tokens

moai

MoAI unified orchestrator for autonomous development. Routes natural language or subcommands (plan, run, sync, project, fix, loop, mx, feedback, review, clean, codemaps, gate, e2e, harness, goal, todo) to specialized agents.

modu-ai/moai-adk · 59 tokens