create-handoff

create-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tobihagemann/turbo. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-handoff writer that saves the current task, status, decisions, changes, and next step in a Markdown file. A handoff lets a new coding-agent session continue without reconstructing the earlier work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or save a handoff under `.turbo/handoff/` before switching sessions or pausing work.
Why use it?
It preserves useful working context when a session is ending or needs to be resumed later. It records unresolved decisions as well as work that is still in progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to create or save a handoff under .turbo/handoff/ before switching sessions or pausing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobihagemann/turbo/create-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tobihagemann/turbo --skill create-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 54
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00102 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00104

Measured today against content hash 69604945cf75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 today.

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.

claude/skills/create-handoff/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Handoff

Write a session handoff file at .turbo/handoff/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md so a fresh session can pick up where this one left off.

Step 1: Resolve the Target Path

Get today's date: date +%Y-%m-%d.

Pick a slug for the current task:

  • Lowercase
  • Replace non-alphanumeric characters with hyphens
  • Collapse consecutive hyphens
  • Trim leading and trailing hyphens
  • Truncate to 40 characters at a word boundary

If the work is anchored to an existing plan at .turbo/plans/<slug>.md, reuse that plan's slug verbatim.

The user may pass an explicit slug or output path; honor it.

The target path is .turbo/handoff/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md. A generated slug takes -2, -3, and so on until the path is free. When the user supplied the slug or path and it already exists, use AskUserQuestion to offer overwrite, a numeric suffix, or a different slug.

When an open decision will outlive the rest of the session's state, still unresolved while the work around it is finished, give it its own handoff. Everything else stays in a single file. Slug the split handoff for that decision rather than appending a collision suffix, and write it to stand alone.

State the chosen path before continuing.

Step 2: Gather Session State

Run git status --short to see uncommitted changes in the working tree.

Survey the conversation context for:

  • Current task: what is being worked on, in one or two sentences
  • Workflow status: where in the workflow this session is (drafting, refining iteration N, applying findings, implementing step M of K, investigating, blocked on Q, etc.)
  • Active artifact: path to the plan or other file at the center of the work, if one exists
  • Open decisions: questions raised but not resolved, choices the user is still weighing, escalations awaiting input
  • In-flight changes: staged or unstaged edits that are not yet committed; what each change is doing and what is missing
  • Closed avenues: approaches that were built or tested and then abandoned, with the observed evidence that ruled them out
  • Next step: the first concrete action the new session should take. When the user has stated what they want to work on next, that intent leads and any work left in flight is ordered after it; say so in the same statement when that work should not resume at all

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. today Changed 69604945cf75
  2. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A a86a2aeb3b39

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create-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobihagemann/turbo (402 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,039 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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