handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Rijul1204/rashedul-agentic-engineering. It costs 142 tokens per session (3,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff document process for transferring an unfinished coding task to another agent or a later session. It records the goal, completed work, blockers, and the files or skills still relevant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create a concise continuation brief when using a handoff command, preparing for a new session, or pausing work for later.
Why use it?
It preserves the important context when a conversation ends or work needs to continue elsewhere. It avoids making the next agent reconstruct the task from the full chat history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Create a concise continuation brief when using a handoff command, preparing for a new session, or pausing work for later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rijul1204/rashedul-agentic-engineering/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 Rijul1204/rashedul-agentic-engineering --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rijul1204/rashedul-agentic-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,139 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 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 $0.00142 $0.03139
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01570
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00314

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2dde54847b1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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/handoff/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

handoff

Compact the current conversation into a single self-contained Markdown document that a fresh agent can read at the start of the next session and immediately know: what to do, what's already done, what's blocked, and which skills/files to touch. Save it to the OS temp directory (NOT the workspace) so it doesn't accidentally get committed.

The handoff doc is a briefing, not a transcript. It references — never duplicates — content that already lives in other artifacts (PRs, plans, design docs, commits, memory entries, ADRs, issue trackers).

See README.md for the credit (Matt Pocock's original handoff) and install / use instructions.

When to invoke

Fire on any of:

  • User invokes /handoff (optionally with an argument describing the next session's focus).
  • User says "create a handoff doc", "write a handoff document", "compact this", "pass off to another session", "checkpoint this conversation".
  • User says "what will the next session focus on" or "I'll pick this up tomorrow".
  • User signals an imminent context-window break and wants the work to survive.

When NOT to invoke

  • Mid-task, when the user wants you to keep going. Handoff is a session-boundary ritual, not a status update mid-conversation.
  • For one-off questions ("what's the status?") — answer directly; don't write a file.
  • When the conversation is short (<20 substantive turns) and nothing material would be lost by starting fresh.
  • When the user is asking for documentation that should live IN the repo (design docs, ADRs, READMEs). Handoff docs are ephemeral session-bridge artifacts; if it deserves permanent docs, write it alongside code (e.g. under docs/, project-management/, or architecture/), not in /tmp.

Step 1 — Parse the argument

If the user passed an argument to /handoff (or named the next session's focus in their message), treat it as the mission statement. The whole doc tailors to that mission.

Examples of argument shapes you might see:

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 7d ago First seen · 233 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 2dde54847b1a

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rijul1204/rashedul-agentic-engineering (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 3,139 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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