handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from photostructure/coding-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff workflow for recording project progress and decisions in a Technical Project Plan before a session ends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when context is running low or work must continue in a later session.
Why use it?
It prevents the next coding session from having to rediscover what was learned, including dead ends and important reasoning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the coding plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install coding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash e42b7aff3914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/coding/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

TPP Handoff

Documented in depth: Claude Code has amnesia. So do PRs, changelogs, and your future self.

We're out of time and need to hand off the remaining work. The Technical Project Plan (TPP) is the handoff document — whatever this session learned must end up in the file, or the next session re-learns it the hard way.

Required Reading First

Before any work, you MUST read:

  • The project's instructions: AGENTS.md, plus CLAUDE.md when present
  • The project's TPP guide: docs/TPP-GUIDE.md if it exists; otherwise the bundled reference TPP-GUIDE.md

Your Task

Apply the guide's Handoff rules and Keeping TPPs useful sections to the active TPP. What this session learned that the repository does not already record — gotchas, dead ends and why they failed, the reasoning behind decisions — is the part that must end up in the file.

The bar: the next session should be able to invoke the tpp skill with the plan path and continue without asking what happened last time.

Adapting for your project

  • Extend the required reading list with the same project docs your tpp skill reads — the two skills should share one list.
  • Set the trimming and focus rules in your project's docs/TPP-GUIDE.md, which owns them. Don't reintroduce a line budget here — the guide deliberately measures focus, not length.
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. 3d ago First seen · 41 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e42b7aff3914

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository photostructure/coding-skills (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 435 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 2026-08-31.

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