code-handoff

A handoff document that records the current conversation so another coding agent can continue the work. It saves the document in a project folder and includes suggested skills for the next session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when transferring unfinished work, decisions, constraints, and the next focus to another agent.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct the task from a long or ended conversation. Sensitive information is removed from the handoff.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 188 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 $0.00020 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash f659b584a89c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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/code-handoff/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Create <project-root>/.handoff/ if needed and save the document there with a descriptive .md filename.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

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 · 17 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A f659b584a89c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (44 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 188 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 2026-08-30.