What is handing-off-session?

A session handoff note is a structured Markdown file that records the current work state for a later session. It captures completed work, decisions, recent Git changes, blockers, and unfinished tasks.

Use it to create a handoff file at the end of a coding session or before a long break. It is also useful when another session needs to continue the same project.

It prevents important context from being lost when a session ends, a project changes, or the conversation becomes too long. The next session can use the note to resume work.

handing-off-session — Skill by qte77

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/qte77/claude-code-plugins/handing-off-session

Any agent

npx skills add qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill handing-off-session

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-meta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 hook.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 595 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00026	$0.00595
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.00298
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00119
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99482399ede0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handing-off-session 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 2d 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/cc-meta/skills/handing-off-session/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Captures session state as a structured markdown note for the next session to pick up. Stateless — markdown files only, no database, no daemon.

Arguments

Position	Name	Required	Default	Description
1	`output-path`	no	auto	Where to write the handoff note.

Default output path: .claude/handoffs/YYYY-MM-DD-<short-description>.md

The <short-description> is a 2-4 word slug derived from the session's primary focus (e.g. 2026-04-06-session-handoff-skill.md).

When to Use

End of a work session
Switching context to a different project or task
Before a long break
When context window is getting full and you want to preserve state

Workflow

Scan conversation — Identify completed actions, decisions, and pending work from the current session context.
Check git state — Run git diff --stat and git log --oneline -10 to capture recent changes and commits.
Extract signals — Collect decisions made, alternatives rejected, blockers encountered, and open questions.
Ensure output dir — Create .claude/handoffs/ if it doesn't exist.
Write handoff note — Use the template below. Be concise — enough to resume, no more.

Output Template

# Session Handoff — <date>

## What Was Done
[Completed work, key commits, PRs created/merged]

## What's Pending
[Open tasks, unfinished work, next steps]

## Key Decisions
[Architectural choices, trade-offs made, rejected alternatives]

## Modified Files
[List of files changed with brief reason]

## Blockers
[External dependencies, open questions, things that need user input]

Picking Up a Handoff

Next session can read the latest handoff:

# Find latest handoff
ls -t .claude/handoffs/*.md | head -1

Or read all recent handoffs to rebuild context across multiple sessions.

Quality Check

Correct > Complete > Minimal (ACE-FCA)
~20-50 lines output per handoff
Every item traces to a concrete action or artifact
No raw dumps — structured summaries only

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

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.

2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 99482399ede0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handing-off-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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