session-handoff

session-handoff is a skill for Codex from jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (661 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-end document that records what was completed, why important decisions were made, what remains, and how to resume the work. It is written so another person or a later session can understand the project without reconstructing the conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when wrapping up a coding or research session, handing work to someone else, or documenting the exact next steps. It normally creates or updates START_HERE.md with state, decisions, gotchas, paths, and commands.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context between work sessions and records failed approaches, environment quirks, and unfinished tasks. This makes resuming work faster and less error-prone.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when wrapping up a coding or research session, handing work to someone else, or documenting the exact next steps. It normally creates or updates START_HERE.md with state, decisions, gotchas, paths, and commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/session-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 jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills --skill session-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 661 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 $0.00093 $0.00661
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00066

Measured 11d ago against content hash 62f1fac82ef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-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 11d 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/session-handoff/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Context dies between sessions. The next session re-reads files, re-discovers decisions, and re-hits the same trap that cost an hour last time. This skill freezes the session's working state into one document built to be read cold.

Step 1: Mine the session

Extract from the current conversation, not from memory of what should have happened:

  • What was accomplished: only things actually finished and verified. Half-done work is listed as half-done.
  • Decisions made and why: especially decisions that reversed an earlier approach. The "why" is the part the next session cannot reconstruct.
  • What is in progress: exact state, which file, which step.
  • Next steps: concrete and ordered, with the first one precise enough to start typing immediately.
  • Gotchas: everything that failed and how it was fixed, environment quirks, commands that need specific flags, things that look broken but are fine.
  • Key paths and commands: the files that matter and the exact commands to run (build, test, deploy, resume).

Step 2: Write the handoff

Default target: START_HERE.md in the project root (or append a dated section to an existing one, newest at the top). Format:

# Start Here: <date>

## TL;DR
Two sentences: where the project is, and the single next action.

## Done this session
## In progress
Exact state, file, and step for each item.

## Next steps (in order)
1. The first one must be executable immediately, with the exact command or file.

## Decisions and why
## Gotchas
What burned time this session, so it does not burn time again.

## Key paths and commands

Step 3: Verify readability cold

Reread the document as someone with zero context: no session shorthand, no "the fix we discussed", no codenames invented mid-conversation. Every reference names its file. If a next step depends on a decision, the decision is in the document too.

On resume

When a new session starts with "where did we leave off": read START_HERE.md, confirm the state still matches reality (files may have changed since), and start on next step 1. Flag divergence instead of following a stale plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 62f1fac82ef6

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session-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 661 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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