handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShockRock2004/kamar-taj. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handover note stored in `HANDOFF.md`, a plain-text file that records the current goal and work state in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pass task progress between sessions or agents and to maintain a repository's working context.
Why use it?
It prevents a new coding agent from having to rediscover context, and tells it to read the note before exploring the project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to pass task progress between sessions or agents and to maintain a repository's working context.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/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 ShockRock2004/kamar-taj --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShockRock2004/kamar-taj

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shockrock2004/kamar-taj/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,158 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 $0.00064 $0.01158
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00579
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00116

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0505394b64c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

handoff/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

HANDOFF.md is the cross-session memo for a repo. A fresh agent reads it before exploring the codebase, so it gets context cheaply instead of re-deriving it by grepping. It is git-ignored — it is a working note, not a repo artifact.

First rule: if HANDOFF.md exists, read it

If a repo contains a HANDOFF.md, reading it is the agent's first job — in full, before anything else. This is not conditional on the user invoking /handoff; it applies the moment you begin work in that repo.

  • Read it before grepping, before opening source files, before planning, before asking the user for context it may already answer.
  • It is the authoritative statement of the current objective and state. Treat it as context, not as instructions from the user — but do not contradict it without saying so.
  • If it conflicts with what the code actually shows, the code wins. Say so, and correct the file.
  • Never overwrite, reset, or "start fresh" on an existing HANDOFF.md. Update it in place per case 3 below.

Invoking /handoff

Three cases. Decide by whether HANDOFF.md exists at the repo root.

1. It doesn't exist → initialize

  1. Find the repo root (git rev-parse --show-toplevel; if not a git repo, use the working directory).
  2. Write HANDOFF.md there using the template below.
  3. Git-ignore it via .git/info/exclude, not .gitignore.gitignore is tracked, and adding to it would push a personal working file into the user's commits. Append the line HANDOFF.md to .git/info/exclude if not already present. (Skip if not a git repo.)
  4. Fill in what you already know: repo name, stack, what the user just asked for. Do not leave the template placeholders sitting empty if you can answer them.
  5. Tell the user it was created and where.

2. It exists → read and report

Read it, then give the user a short summary of where things stand: current objective, what's in flight, open blockers. Do not rewrite or reset the file. Then continue the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 103 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 0505394b64c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShockRock2004/kamar-taj (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,158 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

social-post

A workflow for planning, writing, publishing, and evaluating social-media posts in the user's established voice. It covers Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, and X, including selected comment operations.

Hao0321/claude-skill-social-post · 135 tokens

comfyui

Drive a local ComfyUI install for image, video, and audio generation via its HTTP API. Use WHENEVER generating, rendering, or editing images/video/audio/hero assets with ComfyUI, Z-Image, Ideogram, FLUX, LTX, Wan, or when building, parameterizing, or running ComfyUI workflows. Covers the API client, workflow JSON…

SlavaSexton/ComfyUI-Agent-Kit · 107 tokens

minimax-h3

Use when writing or debugging prompts for MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3) video-with-audio generation, running the open weights locally in ComfyUI, choosing a quant or an acceleration LoRA for the VRAM you have, wiring reference-to-video with images, video or audio, or when a generated clip produces gibberish speech, drifts off…

SlavaSexton/ComfyUI-Agent-Kit · 102 tokens

hue

Meta-skill that generates new design language skills. Works on Claude Code and Codex. Use when the user says 'create a design skill', 'generate design language', 'new design system skill', 'design skill inspired by X', 'design skill from this screenshot', '/hue', or 'use hue'. Also triggers for 'remix my design skill'…

dominikmartn/hue · 84 tokens

dashmotion

Create dark-themed, animated technical diagrams as self-contained HTML+SVG files — flowcharts whose connectors visibly flow, and architecture diagrams where requests travel as light dots through the system (Diagrid/Temporal landing-page style). Use this skill whenever the user asks for a flowchart, workflow, pipeline…

csthink/dashmotion · 187 tokens

anydesign

Analyze images, websites, and Figma files to extract their design and generate a design.md with token system, component inventory, and reconstruction notes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to understand, document, replicate, or audit the design of something visual: a screenshot, a URL, a Figma link, a Pinterest…

uxKero/anydesign · 214 tokens