handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from korbinjoe/TeemAI. It costs 26 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for transferring an unfinished task to another specialized agent. It records the task, completed work, relevant files, and important findings for the receiving agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task is better suited to an agent focused on design, code review, architecture, deployment, implementation, research, or another listed area.
Why use it?
It prevents work from being handled by an unsuitable specialist and gives the next agent the context needed to continue.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when a task is better suited to an agent focused…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/korbinjoe/teemai/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 korbinjoe/TeemAI --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/korbinjoe/TeemAI

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 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 $0.00026 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0e7279086190, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/_env.sh, scripts/handoff.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

ai-assets/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

Transfer your current task to a more appropriate Agent. After a successful handoff, exit cleanly — the target Agent takes over.

How to Handoff

  1. Summarize what you've done so far and what you've discovered
  2. Identify the most appropriate target Agent
  3. Call: bash {SKILL_DIR}/scripts/handoff.sh <agentId> "<task>" '<context-json>'
  4. If the script exits 0 (HANDOFF_OK), exit cleanly — your work is done
  5. If the script exits 1 (HANDOFF_FAILED), continue working on the task yourself

Context JSON Format

{
  "originalUserMessage": "what the user originally asked",
  "workDoneSoFar": "summary of what you accomplished",
  "relevantFiles": ["file1.ts", "file2.tsx"],
  "keyFindings": ["insight 1", "insight 2"]
}

Handoff Targets

Task domain Target Agent
Visual/UI/styling/design ui-designer
Code review/quality audit code-reviewer
Architecture/module boundaries/refactoring architect
Deploy/CI/CD/infrastructure devops-engineer
Implementation/bug fixes/features fullstack-engineer
Logo/icon/image creation image-creator
Product research/PRD/competitive analysis product-strategist
Promotion/X posts/social media growth-marketer
Agent evolution/prompt optimization sensei

Constraints

  • Max 1 handoff per task (no chained handoffs)
  • Same chat only
  • No self-handoff

Calling Convention

Use Bash's description parameter: Handoff to <agentId>

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 56 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 0e7279086190

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository korbinjoe/TeemAI (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 413 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.

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