seat-continuity-and-handover

seat-continuity-and-handover is a skill for Claude Code from mvschwarz/openrig. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,863 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for replacing the occupant of a stable agent seat while preserving the seat's identity and recording where the new occupant came from. A seat is a persistent position in an agent setup, while its occupant can change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when rebuilding, forking, or replacing an agent; deciding whether the old occupant retires, advises, or shadows; or auditing seat continuity and provenance.
Why use it?
It prevents seat names from being used as confusing records of an agent's history. It separates creating a successor from assigning that successor to a seat.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the openrig-core plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when rebuilding, forking, or replacing an agent; deciding whether the old occupant retires, advises, or shadows; or auditing seat continuity and provenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mvschwarz/openrig/seat-continuity-and-handover
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 mvschwarz/openrig --skill seat-continuity-and-handover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openrig-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,863 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00087 $0.01863
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00186

Measured yesterday against content hash afa4b29aa17e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seat-continuity-and-handover 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.

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig-core/skills/seat-continuity-and-handover/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seat Continuity and Handover

A pair of primitive families that separate who is sitting in a seat from what the seat itself is:

  1. Occupant-creation primitivesresume, fork, rebuild, fresh — produce a candidate new occupant. Answer: "where did the new occupant come from?"
  2. Seat-binding operations — handover binds a candidate occupant into the topology. Answer: "what happened to the stable seat identity?" Inspect the current CLI for executable operations; design vocabulary alone does not establish a command.

Core architectural decision: stable seat identity, fluid occupant identity, explicit provenance. Do not encode successive occupants into live seat names. Keep the stable address and record lineage separately.

Use this when

  • Replacing a seat's occupant via rebuild, fork, fresh, or seat-handover
  • Choosing old-occupant disposition: retire / advise / shadow
  • Reasoning about whether a seat's lineage is stable or has drifted
  • Reading or writing the provenance record for a seat
  • Designing or auditing topology stability across an occupant change

Don't use this when

  • The seat is freshly created (no occupant to replace) — use rig launch / rig expand directly
  • The intent is to change topology shape (add/remove seats), not replace an occupant — use topology-mutation primitives

The two-outcome honesty model

Every seat-binding operation produces two independent outcomes:

continuityOutcome: rebuilt | resumed | forked | fresh | failed
seatBindingOutcome: handed_over | partial | failed | unchanged

These can disagree honestly. Examples:

  • continuityOutcome: failed + seatBindingOutcome: unchanged — new occupant didn't materialize; seat correctly retains old occupant.
  • continuityOutcome: rebuilt + seatBindingOutcome: failed — candidate created OK; bind failed mid-flight; provenance records the gap.

Don't collapse these into one outcome. The system can describe what actually happened only if the two are recorded independently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. yesterday Changed · +6 lines afa4b29aa17e
  2. 10d ago First seen · 152 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 6b5163e6f2a7

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seat-continuity-and-handover is a skill published in the GitHub repository mvschwarz/openrig (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,863 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.