Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to the-sid-dani/second-brain-os. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/main/.agents/skills/handoff/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-sid-dani/second-brain-osWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/handoff)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00019 | $0.00289 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00116 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00058 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
handoff scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save to the temporary directory of the user's OS ($TMPDIR on macOS) - not the current workspace - as handoff-YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md, and tell the user the full path.
Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.
The handoff is a temporary bridge, not the record. Before writing it, make sure anything durable from this conversation (decisions, findings, open commitments) already lives in its real home: the project's memory.md, the ticket, the spec or the daily memory note. File it there first if it doesn't, then point the handoff at it.
Do not duplicate content already captured in other artifacts (specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, diffs). Reference them by path or URL instead.
Redact any sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, or personally identifiable information (personal phone numbers, home addresses, personal emails; colleagues' names are fine).
If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.
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.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 18 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 3d215b6dc66c
handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-sid-dani/second-brain-os (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 289 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-17.
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