mtk-agent-toolkit: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,857 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff tool that records the current coding work in a short recovery note. It captures items such as the branch, uncommitted changes, recent commits, decisions, blockers, and important files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a new session or teammate to continue in-progress work with the relevant state and next steps.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work from having to be rediscovered after a long session, context limit, teammate handoff, or branch change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex.

This is moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mtk-agent-toolkit itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mtk-agent-toolkit configures →

Part of the mtk plugin — 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/main/.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mtk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,857 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 $0.00042 $0.01857
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00186

Measured 6d ago against content hash 87b162c10f9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Current Session State

echo "--- Branch ---"
git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "(detached)"
echo "--- Uncommitted changes ---"
git status --short 2>/dev/null | head -20 || echo "(not a git repo)"
echo "--- Recent commits (this branch) ---"
git log --oneline -5 2>/dev/null || echo "(no commits)"

Overview

A handoff captures the current session state — branch, in-progress work, decisions, blockers, and key files — into a small markdown artifact so the next session (yours after compaction, a new conversation tomorrow, or a teammate) can resume without re-discovering the context. The artifact is a pointer, not a transcript: it tells the next reader where to look, not what every step was.

When To Use

  • Context is approaching its limit and compaction is imminent — including when the context-budget hook nudges that the session is past MTK_CONTEXT_BUDGET_PCT% (default 60) of the window: reset deliberately before quality degrades rather than riding it to compaction
  • Ending a long session that has unfinished, non-trivial work
  • Handing off to a teammate who will continue the work
  • Switching branches or features mid-stream and the current state needs to survive
  • The user explicitly asks to "save state", "snapshot", or "hand off"

When NOT To Use

  • Short sessions where the next session can re-derive everything from git status + the last commit
  • Work that is fully committed with a clear commit message — the commit IS the handoff
  • Trivial or exploratory work where there is nothing meaningful to resume
  • Already produced a handoff in this session and nothing material has changed since

Workflow

  1. Gather state. Collect the facts that the next reader will need:
    • Current branch: git branch --show-current
    • Recent commits on this branch: git log --oneline -10
    • Uncommitted changes: git status --short
    • Open tasks: read tasks/todo.md if it exists
    • Active spec or plan: check docs/specs/ and docs/plans/ for recent files. Record the full path of the active spec including any version suffix (e.g., docs/specs/2026-04-23-foo-v2.md) — this becomes spec_path in the artifact.
    • Lessons captured this session: check tasks/lessons.md for today's entries

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 6d ago First seen · 152 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 87b162c10f9b

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,857 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.

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