handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from Malo-T/claude-toolbelt. It costs 151 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff note records the current goal, findings, decisions, changes, and next step in a file so another session can continue later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause and continue repository work, preserve rejected approaches, and tell a fresh session exactly what remains to do.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when a coding session ends or its conversation becomes too large. It can also resume work from an existing handoff file.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the handoff plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to pause and continue repository work, preserve rejected approaches, and tell a fresh session exactly what remains to do.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/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 Malo-T/claude-toolbelt --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Malo-T/claude-toolbelt

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 691 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 $0.00151 $0.00691
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00069

Measured yesterday against content hash 3f57116829ed, 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/handoff/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session handoff

Two modes. Write is the default; resume applies when the user gives a path or asks to resume.

Write mode

1. Where

${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-~/.claude}/handoffs/<repo-or-directory-name>/<YYYY-MM-DD-HHmm>-<short-slug>.md

Outside the repo, so git stays clean. For a handoff the user will pick up later ("tomorrow", "later"), use the suffix .later.md: the plugin then leaves the session alone, so skip step 3. If unsure which variant is wanted, ask before writing.

2. Content

The reader is a fresh Claude with no context. Anything unwritten is lost. Be factual and dense, not narrative.

# Handoff: <title>
Written <date and time> from <cwd>, branch <branch>.

## Goal
<what the session set out to do, and why>

## Where things stand
<what is done, verified, and how it was verified>

## Findings and rejected hypotheses
<what was tried or ruled out, so it is not redone>

## Decisions
<each decision with its reason>

## Uncommitted changes
<every modified file in the tree, one line each, with what changed>

## Next step
<the single next action, then what follows>

## Open questions
<what only the developer can answer>

If the user wants only part of the work carried over, put the scope at the top, develop only that part, and list the rest under "Out of scope", one line per topic. "Uncommitted changes" still lists every modified file, in scope or not, so nothing is lost or committed by mistake.

3. Hand over to the plugin

Write nothing else and run nothing. The plugin's mod notices the file written under handoffs/, and once your turn ends it runs /clear and submits the resume prompt in the fresh session. End the turn with one line naming the file; do not tell the user to type /clear.

Resume mode

Without a path, take the most recent file in ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-~/.claude}/handoffs/<repo-or-directory-name>/ and name it before continuing. Read it, say in three lines where things stand, check that the described state is still true (git status, the files it cites), and propose the next step. Run nothing before the user agrees. For a partial resume ("only X"), work on that part and leave the others untouched.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. yesterday First seen · 58 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 3f57116829ed

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Malo-T/claude-toolbelt (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-11-12.

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