handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from rohitg00/agentmemory. It costs 55 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-resume routine for continuing the latest agent work in a project directory. It also brings forward any question that was left unanswered.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps continue interrupted tasks, identify the relevant previous session, surface open decisions, and choose the next coding step.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reconstruct where a previous coding session stopped and reduces the risk of resuming work from the wrong project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the agentmemory plugin — 17 skills, 2 commands, 12 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps continue interrupted tasks, identify the relevant previous session, surface open decisions, and choose the next coding step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohitg00/agentmemory/handoff
About the project

agentmemory is a persistent-memory system that lets AI coding agents retain and search information across sessions. It connects with several coding agents and MCP clients, storing knowledge with confidence scoring, lifecycle handling, knowledge graphs, and hybrid search. The catalogue contains agentmemory integrations such as skills, hooks, commands, a plugin, and an MCP component.

rohitg00/agentmemory · 29,718 stars · on GitHub · agent-memory.dev

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 rohitg00/agentmemory --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohitg00/agentmemory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentmemory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 commands, 12 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 13 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.00737
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00295
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 7d ago against content hash e4ec7862811a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • handoff — 100% identical, 19 lines differ
  • handoff — 95% identical, 21 lines differ
plugin/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The user wants to resume work. Optional cwd override: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

memory_sessions { "project": "<current-project-id>", "limit": 20 }

Pick the most recent session whose cwd matches this project, then: memory_recall { "query": "<session top concepts>", "project": "<current-project-id>", "limit": 10 }. When an agent is requested, pass the same agentId to both calls.

Expected output:

Resuming 7f3a9c2 "Auth refresh rework".
Open question: should logout revoke all device tokens or just the current one?
Next step: decide revoke scope, then update auth/logout.ts.

Why

Match the session by directory boundary, not raw prefix, so a sibling repo never gets mistaken for this one. Never invent observations for an empty session.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the project path: if $ARGUMENTS is given, normalize it to absolute (path.resolve(process.cwd(), $ARGUMENTS)); else use the cwd.
  2. Call memory_sessions with the exact project identifier when known, and agentId when requested. Otherwise follow nextCursor until the matching directory is found or pagination ends. Preserve filters between pages. Pick the most recent session whose normalized cwd matches by directory boundary: equality, OR cwd.startsWith(projectPath + sep), OR projectPath.startsWith(cwd + sep). Prefer completed over abandoned. No match: report that this project has no matching session and stop. Do not substitute a different project's session.
  3. If the session ended on an unanswered user-facing question, surface it FIRST. Look in summary or recent conversation observations whose narrative ends in ?.
  4. Summarize: title/summary, key files, key decisions or errors, using memory_recall on the top concepts, limit 10, preserving the chosen project and agent scope. Check each result's session or project provenance before including it; a query alone does not enforce scope.
  5. End with one concrete "next step?" pointer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 Changed · +5 lines e4ec7862811a
  2. 17d ago Changed · +2 lines bf59c5bb44e8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1a5695744091

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohitg00/agentmemory (29,718 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 737 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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