handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for packaging the current conversation into a handoff document and a kickoff prompt for another agent. It includes what was done, what remains, open questions, and which files to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when switching agents or pausing unfinished work. It saves the handoff document, identifies the target repository, and provides a prompt that can be pasted into a fresh session.
Why use it?
It preserves the working context when a conversation becomes too long, the workday ends, or responsibility moves to another agent. This makes continuation more reliable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when switching agents or pausing unfinished work. It saves the handoff document, identifies the target repository, and provides a prompt that can be pasted into a fresh session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinmendezai/the-adam-repo/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 Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,448 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.01448
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash 68dbe4b2e8a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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 · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

handoff

Adapted from Matt Pocock's handoff. General-purpose conversational handoff. For Adam factory builds, prefer context-primer which understands the loop's state.

When to use

  • Switching from one agent to another mid-task (e.g. moving to a fresh Cursor chat).
  • The current conversation is too long to be efficient and you want to start fresh without losing state.
  • Wrapping for the day on an in-progress task.

Output

A handoff doc on disk and a kickoff block in chat. The doc is for the next agent; the chat block is for the operator to copy into a fresh session.

Handoff doc template

# Handoff — <short title>

- From: <agent + user>
- Date: <ISO timestamp>
- Repo: <absolute path>

## What we're doing
One paragraph.

## What we've done
Bulleted, terse:
- Decided X
- Implemented Y (link/path)
- Tested Z

## What's next
The single concrete next step. Be specific about commands or skills to invoke.

## Open questions
Bulleted. Things we deferred.

## Files the next agent should read
1. <path>
2. <path>
3. foundation/repo/agent-control/standing-operator-rules.md  *(Adam factory loops — always)*

## Files the next agent should NOT re-read
The full transcript of this conversation.
Long source files unless the next step requires them.

## Quirks / gotchas
- Up to 3 bullets. Stuff that bit us.

Workflow

  1. Skim the conversation. Identify decisions, completed work, open threads.
  2. Resolve absolute repo path (workspace root / tech_context.repo_path / pwd). If multi-repo, pick the one the next agent must open first.
  3. Fill the template above. Include Repo: in the doc header.
  4. Save to handoff-<YYYYMMDD-HHmm>.md in the working directory (or scratch/handoff/ for an Adam factory flow).
  5. Required chat closing — do not end with only a file path. In the same assistant message, output all of:

Required chat closing (mandatory)

In the same assistant message, include:

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 12d ago First seen · 143 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 68dbe4b2e8a3

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,448 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 2026-08-31.

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