handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from TweekFawkes/prompts. It costs 72 tokens per session (695 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A session handoff tool that writes down what was completed, what remains, important decisions, and project details for a fresh coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing sessions or handing a repository to another agent, especially when open tickets, tests, branches, or unfinished work need recording.
Why use it?
It prevents the next session from having to reconstruct the current work from memory or scattered files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when changing sessions or handing a repository to another agent, especially when open tickets, tests, branches, or unfinished work need recording.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 695 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 $0.00072 $0.00695
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0f6ff561f33e, 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 10d 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 · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff — Write a session handoff document

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work.

Ground the handoff in real repo state

Do not invent status. Before writing, collect the facts (run only what's relevant):

  • git status --short and git --no-pager log --oneline -10 — uncommitted changes and recent commits (use the real hashes).
  • git status -sb — current branch and whether it's ahead of / behind its remote (i.e. whether commits are pushed).
  • ls z_tickets/open/ (ignore .gitkeep / dotfiles) — backlog tickets still open.
  • Note any background tasks, deploys, or test runs from this session still in flight or left broken.

Use what you actually did this session as the spine, cross-checked against the state above so the doc matches reality. Be honest: if something failed, was skipped, or is uncertain, say so plainly.

Save location

Save to the z_handoff directory (create it if it doesn't exist) with a file name of YYYYMMDDHHMMSS-some_desc.md. Get the timestamp from the date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S command — do not guess it. some_desc is a short kebab-case slug of the session's focus.

Contents

Use Markdown, bullets over prose, skimmable. Cover:

  • Session summary — 2-3 sentences on the focus.
  • Completed work — finished tasks with concrete file paths and real commit hashes; note whether each is pushed.
  • Pending work — prioritized checklist, including open z_tickets/open/ tickets and any uncommitted working-tree changes.
  • Key decisions — choices made and why, especially anything touching the architecture invariants in CLAUDE.md.
  • Next steps — concrete, ordered actions for the next person.
  • Gotchas / warnings — half-applied changes, stashes, flaky steps, env/deploy caveats, working-tree files intentionally left untouched.
  • Suggested skills — which skills the next agent should invoke and when, drawn from your skill set, e.g.: dowork (run an open ticket end-to-end), newticket (draft a new backlog ticket), openpr (push the branch and open a PR), gohome (commit a worktree back to main and clean up).

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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. 10d ago First seen · 43 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 0f6ff561f33e

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository TweekFawkes/prompts (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 695 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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