handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from snapsynapse/skill-provenance. It costs 93 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff note that records the state of a skill project for another session or collaborator. It summarizes the current version, completed work, stale files, and remaining context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving a skill project between environments, ending a session with significant decisions, or explicitly preparing work for someone else. It is especially useful when the manifest and changelog do not contain enough context.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions and unfinished work from being lost when filesystem state does not carry over. The next person can resume without reconstructing the whole project history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skill-provenance plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skill-provenance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/snapsynapse/skill-provenance/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/snapsynapse/skill-provenance/handoff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 677 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 $0.00093 $0.00677
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2df117cc337d, 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 5d 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Provenance: Handoff

Generate a structured handoff note that captures project state for the next session or a collaborator picking up the work.

When to use

Run /skill-provenance:handoff when:

  • Crossing a non-persistent boundary (e.g., uploading to Claude Chat where filesystem state won't carry over).
  • The session made significant decisions not yet reflected in files.
  • The user explicitly asks for a handoff note.
  • A collaborator or future session needs context beyond what the manifest and changelog provide.

When NOT to use: In filesystem-native environments (Claude Code, IDE) with a current manifest, changelog, and git history, a handoff note is usually unnecessary. The manifest and changelog are the handoff.

Protocol

  1. Read current state. Load MANIFEST.yaml and CHANGELOG.md to understand the bundle's current version and recent history.

  2. Generate the handoff note with these sections:

    • Current bundle version — name and semver from the manifest.
    • What was accomplished this session — summarize the work done, not just files changed.
    • What is stale and needs attention — files flagged as behind or not updated this session.
    • What the next session should do first — concrete first action, not vague guidance.
    • Decisions made but not yet reflected in files — architecture choices, deferred items, scope decisions that someone reading only the code wouldn't know about.
    • Per-file change summaries — for each file modified this session, a brief description of what changed (section added, field removed, logic rewritten). More granular than the changelog entry; helps the next session verify work without re-reading every file.
  3. Replace, don't accumulate. A new handoff note replaces the previous one. Previous handoffs live in changelog history. Don't maintain a chain of handoff files.

  4. Placement. Write the handoff note as a markdown file in the bundle directory (e.g., HANDOFF.md). Track it in the manifest with role: handoff if the user wants it to persist across sessions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 5d ago First seen · 72 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 2df117cc337d

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository snapsynapse/skill-provenance (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.