handoff-prompt

handoff-prompt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A ready-to-copy task brief for giving work to another coding agent. It contains the task context and constraints without relying on local file paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for delegating tasks, preparing handoffs, and placing a complete prompt on the clipboard for another agent.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work moves between agents or sessions. The receiving agent can decide how to proceed from a standalone prompt.

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-agent plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for delegating tasks, preparing handoffs, and placing a complete prompt on the clipboard for another agent.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 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-prompt

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,570 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 $0.00062 $0.01570
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 6d ago against content hash 842cc400b4b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-prompt 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.

plugins/odin-agent/skills/handoff-prompt/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff prompt

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User says handoff , write a handoff, delegate this, or wants a clipboard-ready prompt for another agent
Authority Write only the assembled prompt text and the local clipboard; no repository, VCS, credential, paid, published, or remote mutation
Side effect A standalone, path-free prompt is copied to the clipboard and the user gets a terse confirmation
Done Prompt is on the clipboard, contains no filesystem paths, no invented facts, and gives the receiving agent enough context to orient and decide whether to proceed

Inputs

Required: the task the user names or clearly implies.

Optional, gathered only to make the prompt useful: repo or product identity, relevant issue/PR/branch names or URLs, likely modules, constraints, known symptoms, and the desired output shape. Infer these from the current repo, recent discussion, branch name, linked issue/PR, docs, and obvious nearby context when the user gives only a short label. Do not perform the receiving agent's full independent review or decide its final technical direction.

Procedure

  1. Identify the task from the user text. When the user gives only a short label, infer the boundary from the current repo, recent discussion, branch name, linked issue/PR, docs, and obvious nearby context. Done when: the task is named in one sentence, and when inferred, the source of the inference (repo, branch, issue/PR, or discussion) is recorded.
  2. Gather enough context to orient a fresh agent: repo/product identity, relevant issue/PR/branch names or URLs, likely modules, constraints, known symptoms, and the desired output shape. Stop short of doing the receiving agent's review or picking its technical direction. Done when: repo identity, issue/PR references, likely modules, constraints, symptoms, and output shape are gathered or marked absent, and no receiving-agent review was performed.
  3. Assemble a standalone prompt using portable anchors only — repo owner/name, product or module names, issue/PR URLs, branch names, package or plugin names, public symbols, command names, config keys, exact error text, docs titles, and search terms. Include no absolute paths, home-directory paths, checkout names, or repo-relative file paths unless the user explicitly requests them. Done when: every anchor in the prompt is portable (repo owner/name, URLs, branch names, public symbols, command names, config keys, error text, docs titles, or search terms), and no filesystem path appears unless the user explicitly requested it.
  4. The first real instruction to the receiving agent must be to review, discuss, and assess — not a command-only work order. Make clear the receiving agent owns that review; the handoff gives only starting context and known constraints, and the agent should decide whether the task is still real, stale, already solved, over-scoped, or better handled differently. Done when: the first instruction to the receiving agent is to review, discuss, and assess, and the prompt states the agent owns that review.
  5. Include constraints, non-goals, validation expectations, the desired output shape, and an instruction to re-check live repo/GitHub/CI state where relevant. Tell the receiving agent not to push, merge, close issues/PRs, label, or post public comments unless the handoff explicitly asks for it. Done when: the prompt includes constraints, non-goals, validation expectations, output shape, and an instruction to re-check live state, plus an explicit ban on pushing, merging, closing, labeling, or posting without explicit request.
  6. Use this shape by default, filling each bracketed field from gathered context: Done when: every bracketed field in the template shape is filled from gathered context or marked as needing user input, and no field is left as a placeholder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 6d ago First seen · 77 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 842cc400b4b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,570 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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