handoff

A written project handoff that records the goal, progress, successful and failed approaches, and next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a HANDOFF.md file in the project root before passing work to another agent.
Why use it?
It preserves working context when another agent or a new session takes over, so important decisions and unfinished work are not lost.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 210 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00022 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash f62e8f1a9e91, 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to handoff — 39 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Write or update a handoff document so the next agent with fresh context can continue this work.

Steps:

  1. Check if HANDOFF.md already exists in the project
  2. If it exists, read it first to understand prior context before updating
  3. Create or update the document with:
    • Goal: What we're trying to accomplish
    • Current Progress: What's been done so far
    • What Worked: Approaches that succeeded
    • What Didn't Work: Approaches that failed (so they're not repeated)
    • Next Steps: Clear action items for continuing

Save as HANDOFF.md in the project root and tell the user the file path so they can start a fresh conversation with just that path.


Source: https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/blob/main/skills/handoff/SKILL.md

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. 2d ago First seen · 23 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A f62e8f1a9e91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository stuartshields/claude-setup (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 210 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to handoff, differing in 39 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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