handoff

A structured handoff document for recording the state of a coding session. It captures the task, progress, decisions, code changes, and next steps so work can continue later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, taking a break, switching context, or preparing for a known context reset.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when you stop work, change projects, or start a new session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add robertguss/claude-code-toolkit --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,534 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 $0.00057 $0.01534
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00153

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8476bd4c0e91, 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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • handoff — 97% identical, 2 lines differ
skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Handoff Skill

Create structured documents that enable seamless continuity across Claude sessions.

When to Use

  • Ending a work session for the day
  • Before taking a break mid-task
  • Switching to a different project temporarily
  • When you want to capture state for a future session
  • Before a context reset you know is coming

Handoff Process

Step 1: Assess Session State

Quickly assess:

  1. What phase are we in? (exploration, planning, implementation, debugging, review)
  2. What's the active task? (what we're trying to accomplish)
  3. How far along are we? (just started, mid-way, almost done)

Step 2: Ask What Matters

Ask the user:

"I'll create a handoff document. Is there anything specific you want to make sure I capture? (Key decisions, code snippets, context about the problem, things you'll forget, etc.)"

Step 3: Generate Handoff Document

Create a structured document:

# Session Handoff: [Brief Description]

**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] **Project:** [project name/path] **Session Duration:**
[approximate]

## Current State

**Task:** [What we're working on] **Phase:**
[exploration/planning/implementation/debugging/review] **Progress:** [where we
are - percentage or milestone]

## What We Did

[2-3 sentence summary of the session's work]

## Decisions Made

- **[Decision]** — [Rationale]
- **[Decision]** — [Rationale]

## Code Changes

**Files modified:**

- `path/to/file.ts` — [what and why]
- `path/to/other.ts` — [what and why]

**Key code context:** [Critical snippets or patterns to remember]

## Open Questions

- [ ] [Question needing resolution]
- [ ] [Question needing resolution]

## Blockers / Issues

- [Issue] — [current status]

## Context to Remember

[Important background, constraints, user preferences, domain knowledge - things
that would take time to re-establish]

## Next Steps

1. [ ] [First thing to do next session]
2. [ ] [Second thing]
3. [ ] [Third thing]

## Files to Review on Resume

- `path/to/key/file.ts` — [why it matters]

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 2d ago First seen · 231 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 8476bd4c0e91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,534 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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