handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal. It costs 26 tokens per session (382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff document that records the current conversation so another coding agent can continue the work. It can also include suggested skills and details about the task, repository, branch, and worktree when known.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize unfinished coding work, preserve the current state, and provide continuation details for another agent.
Why use it?
It prevents a new agent from having to reconstruct the task and decisions from scratch when work moves between sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the matt-skills-with-to-goal plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to summarize unfinished coding work, preserve the current state, and provide continuation details for another agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/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 tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install matt-skills-with-to-goal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for handoff

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for handoff

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 382 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00026 $0.00382
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2c1abe0b3afc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md · 27 lines

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 - not the current workspace.

Include a "suggested skills" section in the document, which suggests skills that the agent should invoke.

When the facts are available, include a compact Continuation section with:

  • the exact source task ID (omit it rather than guessing),
  • the current execution owner (source, receiver, or unassigned),
  • the repository, branch, fixed point, and worktree state when relevant.

If the source and receiving sessions are existing Codex App tasks working in the same directory, suggest /codex-task-messenger. The receiver may use it to ask the source task one concrete question when the answer is not settled by the handoff or its referenced artifacts. A Messenger reply supplements the handoff; it does not replace the handoff or expand the user's authorization.

Before editing a shared directory, the receiver should confirm execution ownership once if the handoff leaves it unclear. Read-only clarification does not require an ownership transfer. If the source task is unavailable or Messenger is incompatible with the destination, continue from the handoff and referenced artifacts, surfacing only a real blocker.

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.

If the user passed arguments, treat them as a description of what the next session will focus on and tailor the doc accordingly.

Files

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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 27 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2c1abe0b3afc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal (160 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 382 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.