handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sssemil/SKILLS. It costs 19 tokens per session (273 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff-document workflow for passing the current task to another coding agent. It records the goal, decisions, constraints, files, completed work, blockers, and suggested next steps in a temporary Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a continuation brief when work moves between agents, including relevant paths, links, artifacts, open questions, and recommended skills.
Why use it?
It prevents the next agent from having to reconstruct the conversation and repeat finished work. The handoff keeps the important context in one readable document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps prepare a continuation brief when work moves between agents, including relevant paths, links, artifacts, open questions, and recommended skills.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 273 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 $0.00019 $0.00273
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 7d ago against content hash ea3aaf471a32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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/misc/handoff/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Handoff Skill

Use this skill when the user wants the current conversation compacted into a handoff document so a fresh agent can continue the work.

Instructions

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work.

Save it to a path produced by:

mktemp -t handoff-XXXXXX.md

Read the file before you write to it.

Suggest the skills to be used, if any, by the next session.

Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts such as PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, or diffs. Reference those artifacts by path or URL instead.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the handoff document accordingly.

Handoff Document Checklist

Include only information that helps the next agent continue the work:

  • Current goal and requested outcome
  • Key decisions already made
  • Relevant constraints, preferences, or assumptions
  • Files, paths, URLs, commits, issues, or artifacts to inspect
  • Work completed so far
  • Open questions or blockers
  • Recommended next steps
  • Skills the next session should use, when applicable
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. 7d ago First seen · 40 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A ea3aaf471a32

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository sssemil/SKILLS (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 273 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.