handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sharpninja/McpServer. It costs 29 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for reading handoff documents and turning their contents into reviewable TODO drafts through dedicated handoff tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ingest a handoff from a file, text, or artifact, inspect the generated draft, and approve it when it is ready to create a TODO.
Why use it?
It keeps proposed tasks separate from the project's TODO list until the draft has been inspected and approved, reducing accidental task creation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to ingest a handoff from a file, text, or artifact, inspect the generated draft, and approve it when it is ready to create a TODO.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sharpninja/mcpserver/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 sharpninja/McpServer --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sharpninja/McpServer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00029 $0.00427
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 19d ago against content hash c475040b4924, 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 19d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (invoke.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/core/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Handoff Ingestion

Use the shared workflow.handoff.* REPL namespace or native handoff_ingest / handoff_get / handoff_approve tools. Every surface, including this skill's ingest/get/approve workflow, must go through IHandoffIngestionService. Do not create TODOs from parsed AI text yourself.

Do not edit TODO.yaml or handoff run rows directly.

Ingest

method: workflow.handoff.ingest
params:
  sourceKind: Path
  path: docs/handoffs/example.md
  mode: DraftOnly

sourceKind is Path, Content, or Artifact. mode is DraftOnly (default), RequireReview, or CreateWhenConfident.

DraftOnly never mutates TODO state. RequireReview stores an approvable run. CreateWhenConfident creates a TODO only when confidence is at least 0.75 and no error diagnostic exists.

Inspect

method: workflow.handoff.get
params:
  runId: handoff-run-001

Approve

method: workflow.handoff.approve
params:
  runId: handoff-run-001
  approved: true
  reviewer: operator

Approval revalidates the stored draft before calling the TODO service. ID collisions are never silently renamed.

YAML Mutation Rule

When YAML must be changed, deserialize the complete document into an object, mutate the object, serialize the object, and save the result. Do not append YAML snippets, replace YAML lines, remove YAML lines, or build YAML payloads as strings. For PowerShell work, use plugins/core/lib-ps/yaml-object-mutation.ps1 and call Set-McpYamlObjectValue or Update-McpYamlObject.

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. 19d ago Changed · +4 lines c475040b4924
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b8ac51fdcca1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository sharpninja/McpServer (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 427 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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