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.
npx skills add PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill task-handoffgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-handoff)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 4 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.03279 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.01312 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00656 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00328 |
Grade A, and why
task-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 17d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Task Handoff
This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.
If a slash or dollar invocation already added these instructions, follow them directly. In that case, do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.
Turn one continuation task into one self-contained task handoff for a fresh agent chat. Write the handoff only. Do not implement, edit tracked files, commit, push, launch Codex, or change ignore configuration.
Task-handoff writes one decision-complete file for a fresh, separate session. For a simple task, that isolated file is
enough for direct execution in the receiving session. For a complex task, resolve ~/.agents/skills/orchestration to
its expanded absolute directory, require a readable SKILL.md there, and embed that absolute skill path in the handoff.
Direct the receiving session to load it from Plan mode and use the handoff as its task specification so Codex subagents
can implement it. Do not rely on bare $orchestration discovery.
Task-handoff still creates exactly one file and never launches orchestration itself. Use task-handoff when work continues later or elsewhere, and an in-session handoff skill when implementing an approved plan now.
Select the work
Use $ARGUMENTS when present. Otherwise infer the next unfinished step from the last assistant response and relevant
transcript. Treat the task as a scope selector: retain only evidence needed for that work.
Resolve discoverable facts before writing. While preserving user and concurrent-agent changes, inspect every involved repository's instructions, relevant task surface, and working-tree state, and distinguish completed work, partial work, and remaining work. Run these reads for multiple involved repositories in one parallel batch. If the task is already complete, report the evidence and create nothing. Ask only when an unresolved choice materially changes scope, safety, execution approach, verification, repository membership, or handoff placement.
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.
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.
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- 2mo ago First seen · 203 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 378d71f76462
task-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (104 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,279 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 2026-08-30.
task-handoff compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| task-handoffPaulRBerg/agent-skills | Skill | 104 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 47 | Claude Code, Codex |
| imagegenopenai/codex | Skill | 134k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 113 | Codex |
| local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners | Skill | 79k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 200 | Claude Code, Codex |
| playwright-climicrosoft/playwright | Skill | 100k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 19 | Claude Code |
| browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 36 | Claude Code |
| systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers | Skill | 315k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
| next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | today | MIT | A | 95 | Claude Code |