handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,621 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-continuity and handoff process for recording where work stands or preparing a prompt for another agent, session, directory, repository, or person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a brief with the current status and stopping point, or to produce a clipboard-ready delegation prompt.
Why use it?
It reduces lost context when work is interrupted, completed, or moved elsewhere without launching the receiver or changing remote systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-knowledge plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a brief with the current status and stopping point, or to produce a clipboard-ready delegation prompt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/handoff
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,621 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.
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 $0.00039 $0.02621
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01048
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00524
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00262

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e1633930f07e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/odin-knowledge/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session continuity and handoff

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Substantive work starts, reaches a significant boundary, resumes after interruption, completes, or must move to another session, agent, harness, directory, repository, or person. An explicit handoff request selects the mode.
Authority Reversible local: mode brief writes only ignored repository-local continuity files and one brief under .handoff/handoffs/ or stdout; mode prompt writes only the assembled prompt text and the clipboard. Rollback is version control or undo. No remote mutation.
Side effect Continuity files under .handoff/continuity/, portable briefs under .handoff/handoffs/, or clipboard text. No receiver launch, data-at-rest changes outside these artifacts, bulk mutation, or irreversible effects.
Done Continuity status (fresh, resumed, interrupted, or completed) with the death-point path. On explicit handoff: mode brief, one compliant brief path or stdout result; mode prompt, a path-free prompt on the clipboard or printed with a stated unavailability.

Inputs

  • Mode (required on explicit handoff): brief for a session continuity brief file or stdout, prompt for a clipboard-ready, path-free delegation prompt.
  • Current repository identity, session handle, goal, scope, active files, and current time.
  • Current tasks, decisions with rationale, blockers, evidence, and next action.
  • Existing continuity artifacts, when present.
  • Mode brief: optional source handle, destination path, and project exclude list.
  • Mode prompt: the task the user names or clearly implies, plus optional repo or product identity, issue/PR/branch names or URLs, likely modules, constraints, known symptoms, and desired output shape, inferred from nearby context when the user gives only a short label.

Use .handoff/continuity/ for notes.md, graph.md, and death-point.md. Use .handoff/handoffs/ for portable briefs. Before the first write, prove .handoff/ is ignored. If it is not, add the repository-local exclusion and prove it again. Do not stage these files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A e1633930f07e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (37 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,621 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-13.

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