handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff note procedure for recording the state of unfinished work so another session or person can continue. It captures checked facts, failed approaches, current changes, and one exact next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for ending a session mid-task, saving progress, documenting dead ends, and continuing work from a written note.
Why use it?
A new coding session may not remember the earlier conversation. A handoff prevents repeated investigation and makes unfinished work easier to resume.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the playbooks-virtuoso plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for ending a session mid-task, saving progress, documenting dead ends, and continuing work from a written note.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/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 krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbooks-virtuoso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,306 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 $0.00051 $0.01306
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00522
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash ccfaa296a1bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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/playbooks/handoff/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

A new session starts with no memory. Whatever you learned, tried, and decided is gone unless it is written down. A handoff note is the shortest document that lets the next reader continue at the exact next step instead of re-reading the codebase and repeating dead ends. Write it from facts you checked, not from memory of what you meant to do.

Write a handoff

  1. Capture state from the repo, not from recall. Run git status, git branch --show-current, git log --oneline <base>..HEAD, and the test command. Uncommitted work is the main loss risk, so commit it as a WIP commit if the user agrees, or list the files.
  2. Fill the template below. Leave a section out only if it is truly empty, and say "none" so the reader knows you did not forget it.
  3. Make the next step exact. One action the reader can start in the first minute: a command to run, a file and function to open. "Continue the refactor" is not a next step.
  4. Record dead ends. What you tried and why it failed is the most expensive thing to rediscover. Include the error text or the reason.
  5. Save it (see below) and tell the user the path.

Keep it to one screen, about 40 lines. Link to files, commits, tickets, and PRs instead of pasting their content. If a section runs long, the detail belongs in the code, a commit message, or a ticket.

Template

# Handoff: <short title>

Date: <YYYY-MM-DD>   Branch: <branch>   Base: <commit or PR>

## Goal
<One or two sentences: what is being built or fixed, and why. Link the ticket.>

## Current state
<Where things stand now. Passing or failing, what works, what is half done. Uncommitted files.>

## Done
- <sha> <what it did>

## Tried and failed
- <approach>: <why it did not work, error text or evidence>

## Open questions
- <question>: <who can answer, what depends on it>

## Next step
<The single first action, with the exact command or file.>

## Files and commands
- `<path>`: <why it matters>
- `<command>`: <what it does>

## Verify
<How to confirm the work is correct: the commands and the expected result.>

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A ccfaa296a1bb

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,306 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-22.

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