handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,771 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short handoff summary for passing work between agents, covering what was built, what is missing, and how completion will be checked. It can also save a formal handoff record for higher-risk transfers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to hand over a file or task between agents and, when needed, create a durable record in the project's handoff folder.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when another agent takes over by preserving the work status, missing pieces, and acceptance requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to hand over a file or task between agents and, when needed, create a durable record in the project's handoff folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranhieutt/software_development_department/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 tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,771 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 $0.00030 $0.01771
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00177

Measured 7d ago against content hash c59d9400e9e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 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.

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

Generate the lightweight handoff summary (what was built, what's missing, acceptance criteria) and, when needed, save a formal handoff artifact to .tasks/handoffs/. The receiver verifies the summary before starting work.

Steps

1. Parse arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS:

Positional Required Description
<from-agent> yes Sending agent name (e.g. backend-developer)
<to-agent> yes Receiving agent name (e.g. qa-engineer)
<artifact> yes Primary file or path being handed off
[task_id] no Task ID to link checkpoint — auto-detected from active checkpoint if omitted
Flag Default Description
--risk Medium Risk tier: Low, Medium, High
--status complete Artifact status: complete, partial, draft
--criteria prompt Acceptance criteria strings (can be multi-value)
--formal off Force writing a durable handoff file even when risk is not High

If from-agent, to-agent, or artifact are missing, print usage and stop:

Usage: /handoff <from-agent> <to-agent> <artifact> [task_id] \
                [--risk Low|Medium|High] \
                [--status complete|partial|draft] \
                [--criteria "criterion 1" "criterion 2"] \
                [--formal]

Example:
  /handoff backend-developer qa-engineer src/api/auth.ts 042 \
           --risk Medium --criteria "POST /auth returns 201" "Invalid creds → 401"

Schema reference: .claude/docs/handoff-schema.md

2. Validate agents

Check that <from-agent>.md and <to-agent>.md exist in .claude/agents/. If either is missing, warn but continue:

⚠️  Agent "<name>" not found in .claude/agents/ — check spelling.

3. Resolve task_id and context_snapshot

  • If task_id was provided, check if .tasks/checkpoints/<task_id>.md exists. If yes, set context_snapshot to that path.
  • If task_id was NOT provided, scan .tasks/checkpoints/ for the most recently modified .md file (excluding .gitkeep) and use it as a suggestion.
  • If no checkpoint exists, set context_snapshot to null.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 7d ago First seen · 212 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c59d9400e9e3

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (72 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,771 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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