handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SetraTheXX/Codex-Engineering-Workflow-Pack. It costs 57 tokens per session (903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for writing a short handoff document that records the current state of development work. A handoff helps another person or a later session continue without rereading the entire project history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when ending a session, pausing a task, or transferring work to another developer or coding-agent session.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions, changed files, test results, risks, and next steps from being lost when work pauses or changes hands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when ending a session, pausing a task, or transferring work to another developer or coding-agent session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/setrathexx/codex-engineering-workflow-pack/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 SetraTheXX/Codex-Engineering-Workflow-Pack --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SetraTheXX/Codex-Engineering-Workflow-Pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 903 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 $0.00057 $0.00903
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00361
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00090

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a185a0a48289, 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Create a short, durable handoff that lets future Codex work resume without rebuilding context from the whole conversation.

Do not copy large PRDs, issues, diffs, or test logs into the handoff. Link or reference existing artifacts and capture only what is needed to continue.

Read First

Before writing, inspect:

  • docs/agents/handoff.md
  • docs/agents/issue-tracker.md
  • docs/agents/test-commands.md
  • current PRD or issue paths mentioned in the conversation
  • changed files if available
  • recent verification commands and outcomes

If setup docs are missing, propose this default:

docs/agents/handoff/

Use a timestamped file name such as:

docs/agents/handoff/YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md

Keep Windows paths quoted when showing commands or file locations.

What To Capture

Capture the current state of work:

  • current goal,
  • user-approved decisions,
  • files changed or created,
  • current implementation state,
  • verification run and results,
  • open questions,
  • risks and gotchas,
  • recommended next action.

Capture only enough detail for continuation.

What Not To Capture

Do not include:

  • secrets, tokens, API keys, credentials, private personal data,
  • full PRD or issue contents already stored elsewhere,
  • long command logs,
  • speculative future roadmap unrelated to the current work,
  • unrelated repo findings,
  • hidden chain-of-thought or private reasoning.

If sensitive data appeared in the conversation, redact it and mention that redaction occurred.

Workflow

1. Identify Purpose

Determine why the handoff is being created:

  • end of session,
  • pause before implementation,
  • follow-up tomorrow,
  • switch to testing,
  • switch to another workflow skill,
  • preserve decisions after a long conversation.

If the purpose is unclear, infer it from the latest user request and state the assumption.

2. Collect Existing Artifacts

Find and reference existing artifacts:

  • PRDs,
  • local issues,
  • architecture notes,
  • ADRs,
  • test command docs,
  • prior handoffs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 1mo ago First seen · 184 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A a185a0a48289

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository SetraTheXX/Codex-Engineering-Workflow-Pack (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 903 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 2026-08-31.

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