handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ntaffzii/Skill-Agents. It costs 40 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A compact record of unfinished work for another coding agent or a later session. It captures the objective, progress, decisions, files, checks, problems, and next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing work, switching agents, continuing later, or preserving the commands and verification results from a coding task.
Why use it?
Important context is easy to lose when a session ends or work changes hands. A handoff makes the next continuation point and remaining risks clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/ntaffzii/skill-agents/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add ntaffzii/Skill-Agents --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ntaffzii/Skill-Agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 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 $0.00040 $0.00280
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00028

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8138ad43a0d9, 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.

skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

Use this skill to make work easy to resume.

Handoff Contents

Include:

  • Objective
  • Current status
  • Important decisions
  • Files changed or inspected
  • Commands run and results
  • Known issues
  • Next steps
  • Risks and assumptions

Workflow

  1. Gather state

    • Inspect git status if in a repo.
    • Review recent files and command outputs available in the session.
    • Identify user requests that still matter.
  2. Separate facts from guesses

    • Mark verified facts clearly.
    • Mark assumptions clearly.
    • Do not imply tests passed if they were not run.
  3. Write for continuation

    • Make the next action obvious.
    • Include exact commands when useful.
    • Keep prose compact.

Rules

  • Do not omit failed commands.
  • Do not say work is complete unless verification supports it.
  • Keep unresolved user requests visible.
  • Include branch, repository, or workspace context when relevant.

Output Format

# Handoff

## Objective

## Status

## Decisions

## Files

## Verification

## Next Steps

## Risks
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 · 66 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 8138ad43a0d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository ntaffzii/Skill-Agents (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 280 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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