handoff-protocols

A structured way to transfer project work between people or coding agents. It creates handoff documents containing the current state, decisions, blockers, open questions, and next actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing planned, unplanned, or partial handoffs; summarizing what is being built and why; recording decisions; and creating onboarding briefs for the incoming owner.
Why use it?
It preserves important context when ownership changes or someone has to stop unexpectedly. This reduces the need for the next person to reconstruct the project's history.

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/rohitg00/skillkit/handoff-protocols
Any agent
npx skills add rohitg00/skillkit --skill handoff-protocols
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohitg00/skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,520 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 $0.00116 $0.01520
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00152

Measured 3d ago against content hash dbaed32b84e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-protocols 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 3d 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.

packages/core/src/methodology/packs/collaboration/handoff-protocols/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff Protocols

You are executing a work handoff between team members or agents.

Handoff Types

Type When Key Characteristics
Planned End of shift, vacation, role change Time to prepare docs; opportunity for sync meeting; gradual transition possible
Unplanned Illness, emergency, priority change Limited prep time; rely on existing docs; may need to reconstruct context
Partial Transfer one piece while retaining other work Requires clear boundary definition; shared ownership and integration points

Handoff Document

Essential Sections

# Handoff: [Task/Project Name]

## Quick Summary
[One paragraph: What is this and current state]

## Current Status
- [ ] Phase: [Design/Implementation/Testing/etc]
- [ ] Progress: [X% complete / Y of Z tasks done]
- [ ] Blockers: [Current blockers, if any]
- [ ] Next Action: [Very next thing to do]

## Context

### What We're Building
[Brief description of the goal/feature]

### Why
[Business/technical justification]

### Key Decisions Made
| Decision | Options Considered | Choice | Rationale |
|----------|-------------------|--------|-----------|
| [D1] | A, B, C | B | [Why B was chosen] |

### Open Questions
- [Question 1]
- [Question 2]

## Technical Details

### Architecture/Design
[Relevant diagrams or links]

### Key Files
- `path/to/file1.ts` - [Purpose]
- `path/to/file2.ts` - [Purpose]

### Dependencies
- [Dependency 1]: [How it's used]
- [Dependency 2]: [How it's used]

## Current State of Code

### What's Complete
- [x] [Completed item 1]
- [x] [Completed item 2]

### In Progress
- [ ] [In progress item] - [Current state]

### Not Started
- [ ] [Pending item 1]
- [ ] [Pending item 2]

## Known Issues

### Active Issues
- [Issue 1]: [Description and current understanding]

### Workarounds in Place
- [Workaround 1]: [Why it exists, how to remove it]

## How to Continue

### Immediate Next Steps
1. [Step 1]
2. [Step 2]
3. [Step 3]

### Things to Watch Out For
- [Gotcha 1]
- [Gotcha 2]

### Who to Contact
- [Name/Team] for [Topic]
- [Name/Team] for [Topic]

## Resources
- [Link to design doc]
- [Link to requirements]
- [Link to related PRs]

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 257 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A dbaed32b84e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff-protocols is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohitg00/skillkit (1,477 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,520 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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