handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheSylvester/agentic-coding-tools. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff-prompt writer for coding tasks. It turns the current discussion into a self-contained prompt that another coding agent can follow with no prior conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare one or more implementation prompts for a fresh agent, including phased or parallel work when the task is large.
Why use it?
A new agent may lack the decisions, constraints, and technical context needed to continue the work correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to prepare one or more implementation prompts for a fresh agent, including phased or parallel work when the task is large.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thesylvester/agentic-coding-tools/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 TheSylvester/agentic-coding-tools --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSylvester/agentic-coding-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,322 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 $0.00078 $0.02322
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00929
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00232

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 10aad3054f76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Write self-contained prompt(s) to delegate this task to a coding agent with an empty context window.

Cover all relevant insights and specifications from the discussion.

1. Scope Analysis

Before generating, analyze what benefits from shared context:

  1. Identify coupling — tightly coupled code (same files, shared patterns, mutual dependencies)? Challenge phase boundaries — are they correctly scoped?
  2. Find natural boundaries — where can work separate cleanly?
  3. Check context fit — will grouped work fit in one context window (~20 files max)?

Decision:

Signal Format
Single focused task, <=3 files, one clear goal Single prompt
Multiple distinct file groups or components Chain
Discovery + implementation + verification pattern Chain
Multiple sequential dependencies Chain
Independent work units, no sequencing needed Parallel

If decomposing, announce: "Task splits into [N] units. Generating [N] prompt files."

2. Pre-Generation

Ambiguity resolution — scan for optionality before generating:

Pattern Resolution
"Optionally (but recommended)" Include — recommended means do it
"optional... off by default" Skip — low priority
"If X, then Y" Check if X is true in context
Detailed spec follows the "optional" mention Include — effort was spent on it
Mentioned in Definition of Done Include — success criterion

Only ask the user if genuinely unresolvable.

Extract for verbatim preservation: code snippets, protocol specs, exact commands, file paths (absolute), exceptions and nuances. These appear verbatim, never summarized.

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. 2mo ago First seen · 257 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 10aad3054f76

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSylvester/agentic-coding-tools (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,322 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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