context-transfer

context-transfer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mkonstan/llm-tools. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for writing a handoff document that lets a new AI session continue work without the earlier conversation. The document records the project context, decisions, current state, and important files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating checkpoints, preparing multi-session work, recording architecture and decisions, and making a project easy to resume.
Why use it?
It prevents useful findings and decisions from being lost when a session ends, the context is shortened, or another agent takes over.

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/mkonstan/llm-tools/context-transfer
Any agent
npx skills add mkonstan/llm-tools --skill context-transfer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mkonstan/llm-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,058 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 $0.00156 $0.01058
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00529
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00106

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b7d7cca0674, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-transfer 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 3d 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/context-transfer/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Transfer

Generate structured state documents for AI cold-start recovery across any conversation type.

When To Use

  • User asks to checkpoint, snapshot, or save state
  • Session is getting long and compaction insurance is needed
  • Work will continue in a new session (handoff)
  • Multi-session work needs persistent state
  • User mentions compaction, context loss, or continuity concerns
  • Any conversation where accumulated decisions, findings, or state would be costly to lose

Before Starting

Read the full protocol:

Read references/protocol_v2.4s.md

This contains the complete section definitions, templates, rules, and quality checklist.

Quick Reference

The context transfer has 11 sections. Scale to complexity — not every conversation needs all sections.

Section Purpose Required?
I. What This Is Identity + "It is NOT" correction Always
II. Domain Context Problem-space briefing Multi-session+
III. Architecture System structure Build/engineering work
IV. Decisions Numbered with narrative WHY When decisions exist
V. Current State Step sequence or phase summary Always
VI. Artifacts File inventory with status When files exist
VII. Anti-Drift Warnings Observed/predicted failure modes Multi-session+
VIII. What NOT To Do Catastrophic prohibitions When applicable
IX. Glossary Context-specific terms Domain-specific
X. Open Questions Unresolved issues When they exist
XI. Recovery Pointer Exact restart location + path Always

Minimum viable: Sections I, V, XI.

Workflow

  1. Read the protocol (references/protocol_v2.4s.md) — understand all section rules
  2. Assess scope — use Scaling Guide to determine which sections are needed
  3. Gather state from conversation — extract decisions, current step, artifacts, open questions
  4. Write each section following the protocol templates exactly
  5. Apply critical rules:
    • §I must include "It is NOT..." correction sentence
    • §IV decisions must have narrative WHY (mark [inferred] if rationale not explicitly stated)
    • §VII every warning tagged [observed] or [predicted]
    • §XI must include Work lives in: (write UNKNOWN — ask user if path not known)
  6. Run Quality Checklist from protocol
  7. Save to /mnt/user-data/outputs/ and present to user

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 93 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 4b7d7cca0674

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context-transfer is a skill published in the GitHub repository mkonstan/llm-tools (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,058 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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