discovery-handoff

discovery-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from stanislavnianko/product-discovery-claude-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An operational handoff document that transfers the findings and materials from a discovery phase to the team that will deliver the work. Discovery is the stage where a project team investigates needs, scope, and evidence before building.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving from paid discovery to delivery, changing teams, handing work to a client, or passing a project from a project manager to engineers.
Why use it?
It gives the next team enough context to begin without repeating the investigation or relying on undocumented assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the discovery-phase plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when moving from paid discovery to delivery, changing teams, handing work to a client, or passing a project from a project manager to engineers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stanislavnianko/product-discovery-claude-skills/discovery-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 stanislavnianko/product-discovery-claude-skills --skill discovery-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stanislavnianko/product-discovery-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install discovery-phase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,210 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 $0.00072 $0.01210
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00605
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00121

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2096a32261db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-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 12d 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.

plugins/discovery-phase/skills/discovery-handoff/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discovery Handoff

Part of the discovery-phase skill pack · deliverables group · reads discovery-context.md (run profile-builder first if missing).

When discovery ends and delivery begins — possibly with a different team. This document is the bridge. Reading it cold should be enough to start delivery work.

When to run

  • End of paid discovery sprint, transitioning to delivery contract
  • End of pre-sale discovery, transitioning to client's internal team (PIVOT/KILL or "we'll do it ourselves" outcomes)
  • Mid-engagement transition between agency teams
  • Post-discovery internal handoff (PM → engineering)

Distinct from proposal (commercial) and go-nogo-memo (decision). Handoff is operational.

Step 1 — Read context + scan available artifacts

Read discovery-context.md. If missing, ask the BA inline: "who's the receiving team — same agency / different agency / client internal / mixed?" — tag the output [ASSUMED RECEIVER]. Never block; recommend profile-builder for high-stakes work.

Then scan the ./discovery/ directory for what's actually present. Build an inventory at top of doc — this is critical: a handoff doc that overstates what's been discovered misleads the delivery team.

Step 2 — Identify the receiving team

Ask BA:

  • Who's receiving this? (named team / org / lead)
  • What's their context? (familiar with the client / new to the domain / experienced with the tech stack)
  • What format do they prefer? (doc / wiki / Linear / Notion)
  • Will there be a live walkthrough, or async-only?

This shapes voice and depth. A familiar team needs links + summary. A cold team needs context-rich narrative.

Step 3 — Required sections

3.1 Inventory of artifacts

Bullet list of every file in ./discovery/. For each, one-sentence "what's in it".

3.2 The 30-second pitch

What was discovered, in 4 bullets max. Anyone reading this should know: the problem, the chosen direction, the top risks, the next concrete action.

3.3 Decisions made (with reasoning)

A table:

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 12d ago First seen · 120 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 2096a32261db

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discovery-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository stanislavnianko/product-discovery-claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,210 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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