handoff

A tool for writing a handoff document that records enough conversation context for another coding agent to continue. The document is saved outside the current project’s workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when transferring a task to another agent, including the current focus, relevant artifact locations, and suggested skills while excluding sensitive information.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct the discussion, decisions, and unfinished work from memory.

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/sammcj/agentic-coding/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 201 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% 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 $0.00021 $0.00201
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00101
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb7e3b29c5be, 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

This is a copy

88% identical to handoff — 8 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.

Skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

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

Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information.

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. 2d ago First seen · 21 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A fb7e3b29c5be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (158 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 201 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to handoff, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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