handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lacerbi/dotclaude. It costs 47 tokens per session (966 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff process that records important decisions, findings, unfinished work, and project changes so work can continue from a clean checkout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document ongoing jobs, update durable project notes, and commit or push work needed for resumption.
Why use it?
It prevents session-specific knowledge from being lost when another person or later session takes over.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/lacerbi/dotclaude/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add lacerbi/dotclaude --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lacerbi/dotclaude

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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lacerbi/dotclaude/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lacerbi/dotclaude/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lacerbi/dotclaude/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lacerbi/dotclaude/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 966 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.00966
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00097

Measured 5d ago against content hash 88b01a0310cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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 · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff — make the work resumable from a clean checkout

Goal: a fresh git clone plus a read of the project's durable docs is enough for the next session to resume — except artifacts a project keeps local by design (gitignored checkpoints, pools, weights, venvs; .gitignore is the source of truth). Nothing meant to be tracked may live only in this conversation, the working tree, or a session-bound process. Close every gap you find — don't just report it.

1. Capture the session's substance (if any emerged)

Decisions and their rationale, findings/results, approaches tried and rejected, open questions — anything from the discussion worth keeping that isn't already in the code — into the project's durable docs (DEVLOG / TODO / notes, whatever the project uses). The conversation is not durable: a decision or finding that lives only in chat is lost. Skip if nothing substantive emerged or if it has already been recorded.

2. Record in-flight / async work

For running or pending work whose continuation depends on session-specific context — cluster jobs, background processes, scheduled tasks, or remote work not otherwise discoverable — record in an active durable doc its ID, the exact command/config, where outputs land, how to retrieve them, and its status, so a reader can resume it without this conversation.

An open PR is already durable and discoverable remote state. Do not copy its number, URL, transient status, or CI state into a plan, devlog, TODO, or completed/archive record merely because it is open; report those details in the final reply. Add repository documentation only when the project already maintains a PR tracker or when resumption requires non-obvious information that the PR and repository do not contain. Keep such information in an active work record, not a completed or archived one.

3. Surface what is NOT durable

  • remote/scratch artifacts not yet collected; local-only artifacts the next session must regenerate or fetch (say how);
  • session-bound watchers / background tasks that die with this session (the underlying job keeps running — say how to re-attach by ID);
  • auth / secrets / local state that won't carry over.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 5d ago First seen · 73 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 88b01a0310cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository lacerbi/dotclaude (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 966 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.