task-handoff

task-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,824 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff writer for turning an unfinished coding task into one complete instruction file for a new Codex session, including a command to start that session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a self-contained task brief for another agent, especially when the work spans repositories or may need subagents.
Why use it?
It prevents the next session from missing important context or decisions when work moves to another repository or continues later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to prepare a self-contained task brief for another agent, especially when the work spans repositories or may need subagents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/task-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill task-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,824 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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.
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 $0.00047 $0.02824
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01412
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00282

Measured 9d ago against content hash 378d71f76462, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

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 9d 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/task-handoff/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 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 these instructions are already present from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; 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/codex-handoff 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 $codex-handoff 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. Inspect every involved repository's instructions, relevant task surface, and working-tree state; distinguish completed work, partial work, and remaining work while preserving user and concurrent-agent changes. 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.

Classify the handoff from the user's requested outcome, expected evidence, and authorized actions. Reason about the task; do not keyword-match it. Select exactly one lowercase category:

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 9d ago First seen · 203 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 378d71f76462

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task-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,824 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 2026-08-30.

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