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handoff-recover

handoff-recover is a skill for Claude Code from Sting25/claude-code-handoff. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recovery tool for restoring a written summary of a previous Claude Code session when the normal handoff step was not run. A handoff is a saved record of repository state and work context for continuing later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct the current handoff from saved session data and continue work with the recovered repository state and earlier context.
Why use it?
It helps recover context after a crash, closed terminal, or session compaction when the available snapshot contains little or no curated explanation. It requires the handoff scripts and hooks to be installed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

not rated 5repo changed 3d ago A scan 0 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to reconstruct the current handoff from saved session data and continue work with the recovered repository state and earlier context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover
View source ↗ Sting25/claude-code-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Sting25/claude-code-handoff --skill handoff-recover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,200 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 $0.00000 $0.04200
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.01680
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00840
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00420

Measured 3d ago against content hash beeda9363249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-recover 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 3d 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-recover/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff-recover — retroactive handoff composition

Prerequisite: this skill leans on scripts and hooks from https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff — the raw dumps it recovers from are written by the Stop hook, and it runs handoff_recover_tail.sh / write_handoff.sh from ~/.claude/bin/. None of that ships with this file alone; run ./install.sh --scope project --project <dir> from that repo first.

The previous session ended without running /handoff — crashed, killed, terminal closed, or just never invoked. SessionEnd wrote a safety-net snapshot, so handoff_current.md has git state but no curated Notes. The SessionStart hook detected this and printed an ACTION banner telling you to invoke this skill.

Note: since the PreCompact hook joined the safety net, a placeholder can also be written MID-session (an uncurated session that hit auto or manual compaction), not only at session end — so this banner can appear even though the "previous session" is the same still-running conversation, freshly compacted. The recovery flow is identical: the raw dump covers the pre-compact turns that compaction summarized away.

This skill reconstructs what the previous session would have written into Notes if /handoff had run, using the raw per-turn dump and the prior history snapshot. The reconstruction is best-effort — it will miss things only the live model knew — but it puts a working baseline into the current session's context and persists it back into handoff_current.md so it's not lost again.

When to invoke

  • Auto-triggered by the SessionStart banner. When the hook output contains ACTION: RUN /handoff-recover, invoke this skill as the first action of the session, before doing any new work.
  • User invokes /handoff-recover explicitly. Same flow.
  • You notice the placeholder yourself. If handoff_current.md contains the <!-- HANDOFF_PLACEHOLDER: keep until /handoff replaces this block --> sentinel (or the legacy "The /handoff skill should append decisions" line) but the hook didn't flag it (e.g. HANDOFF_SS_DISABLE_RECOVER was set), invoke anyway — the recovery is still useful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 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. 3d ago Changed · -37 lines beeda9363249
  2. 5d ago Changed 332bdba34564
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 371 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8f3bfd82c127

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handoff-recover is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sting25/claude-code-handoff (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,200 tokens. 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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