handoff-writer

handoff-writer is a skill for Claude Code from kingoo123/agent-harness-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for creating a continuation note after part of a long task is complete. The note records the goal, completed work, files, decisions, failures, risks, and next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing a task, handing work to someone else, or saving the state for a future session.
Why use it?
It helps another developer or agent continue without repeating work or guessing what happened.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-harness plugin — 8 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it when pausing a task, handing work to someone else, or saving the state for a future session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kingoo123/agent-harness-skills/handoff-writer
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 kingoo123/agent-harness-skills --skill handoff-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kingoo123/agent-harness-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 154 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 $0.00032 $0.00154
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 11d ago against content hash d088849c4a31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-writer 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/handoff-writer/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Handoff Writer

Goal

Create a continuation artifact that preserves state and prevents rework.

Output format

# Handoff

## Current Goal

## Completed Work

## Modified Files / Artifacts

## Decisions Made

## Failed Attempts

## Verification Status

## Risks / Open Questions

## Next Action

Quality rules

  • Be factual.
  • Mention exact files or artifacts when available.
  • Separate completed work from planned work.
  • Do not hide failed attempts.
  • Include verification evidence or say it is missing.
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 · 42 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A d088849c4a31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository kingoo123/agent-harness-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 154 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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