handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 35 tokens per session (186 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A session handoff document that records the conversation’s useful context so another coding agent can continue the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, switching agents, or preparing for a conversation-length limit. It saves a temporary summary, recommends relevant skills, and removes sensitive details.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions, instructions, and next steps from being lost when a session ends or changes agents. It also avoids repeating information already stored in project files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the productivity plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands 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/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install productivity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands.

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/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 186 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00035 $0.00186
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 4d ago against content hash 576026f06d7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to handoff — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude-plugin/plugins/productivity/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

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. 4d ago First seen · 16 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 576026f06d7d

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 186 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to handoff, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.