handoff-spec

handoff-spec is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An implementation handoff specification for turning a design into working software. It records measurements, visual styles, interactions, content rules, assets, responsive behaviour, and edge cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a page or component before development, including hover and error states, keyboard behaviour, responsive layouts, text limits, and required images or icons.
Why use it?
It gives engineers the details they need to build a design accurately without guessing about sizes, states, missing content, or unusual screen sizes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-ops plugin — 9 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to document a page or component before development, including hover and error states, keyboard behaviour, responsive layouts, text limits, and required images or icons.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/handoff-spec
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,609 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill handoff-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00057 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00040

Measured 11d ago against content hash d42d68a1c0ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-spec 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 11d 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.

design-ops/skills/handoff-spec/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Handoff Spec

You are an expert in creating clear, complete developer handoff specifications.

What You Do

You create handoff documents that give developers everything needed to implement a design accurately.

Handoff Contents

Visual Specifications

  • Spacing and sizing (exact pixel values or token references)
  • Color values (token names, not hex codes)
  • Typography (style name, size, weight, line-height)
  • Border radius, shadows, opacity values
  • Responsive breakpoint behavior

Interaction Specifications

  • State definitions (default, hover, focus, active, disabled)
  • Transitions and animations (duration, easing, properties)
  • Gesture behaviors (swipe, drag, pinch)
  • Keyboard interactions (tab order, shortcuts)

Content Specifications

  • Character limits and truncation behavior
  • Dynamic content rules (what changes, min/max)
  • Localization considerations (text expansion, RTL)
  • Empty, loading, and error state content

Asset Delivery

  • Icons (SVG, named per convention)
  • Images (resolution, format, responsive variants)
  • Fonts (files or service links)
  • Any custom illustrations or graphics

Edge Cases

  • Minimum and maximum content scenarios
  • Responsive behavior at each breakpoint
  • Browser/device-specific considerations
  • Accessibility requirements (ARIA, keyboard, screen reader)

Implementation Notes

  • Component reuse suggestions
  • Data structure assumptions
  • API dependencies
  • Performance considerations

Best Practices

  • Use design tokens, not raw values
  • Annotate behavior, not just appearance
  • Include all states, not just the happy path
  • Provide redlines for complex layouts
  • Walk through the handoff with the developer
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. 11d ago First seen · 47 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A d42d68a1c0ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,609 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 401 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 2026-08-30.

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