handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from quay/ai-helpers. It costs 19 tokens per session (160 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of handoff, MIT.

A skill for creating a handoff document that records enough of the current conversation for another agent to continue. It saves the document to a temporary file and avoids repeating information already stored in project artifacts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, switching agents, or passing a focused task to a fresh session.
Why use it?
It preserves context when work moves between agent sessions. It also points the next session to existing plans, decisions, issues, commits, or code changes instead of copying them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the dev plugin — 16 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it when ending a session, switching agents, or passing a focused…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/quay/ai-helpers/handoff
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 quay/ai-helpers --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quay/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command.

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/quay/ai-helpers/handoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/quay/ai-helpers/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/quay/ai-helpers/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/quay/ai-helpers/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 160 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00019 $0.00160
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00080
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash 77abcc415208, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to handoff — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/dev/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save it to a path produced by mktemp -t handoff-XXXXXX.md (read the file before you write to it).

Suggest the skills to be used, if any, by the next session.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 77abcc415208

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository quay/ai-helpers (3 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 160 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to handoff, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.