semester-handoff

semester-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 91 tokens per session (2,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A term-end handoff tool for UK law clinics. It creates notes that explain each active case to the students taking over, plus a summary for the whole group.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps record case history, deadlines, client communications, ownership changes, and next steps for incoming students.
Why use it?
When students leave at the end of a term, important case knowledge can be lost and the next group must spend time rebuilding it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the legal-clinic-uk plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps record case history, deadlines, client communications, ownership changes, and next steps for incoming students.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/semester-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 uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill semester-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,489 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 $0.00091 $0.02489
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00249

Measured 9d ago against content hash 747ec2c66604, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semester-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 9d 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.

legal-clinic-uk/skills/semester-handoff/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md → clinic profile, term dates, supervision style.
  2. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/deadlines.yaml and ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md per case.
  3. Use the workflow below.
  4. Take active-case list as input (ask if clinic doesn't have a central list). Map outgoing → incoming owners.
  5. Generate per-case handoff memo → ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/handoffs/[term]/[case_id].md.
  6. Generate cohort summary → ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/handoffs/[term]/_summary.md.
  7. Route per supervision model — formal queue / configurable flags / lighter-touch.

Semester (Term) Handoff

Purpose

Every term, UK law school clinics lose their entire workforce and rebuild. /legal-clinic-uk:ramp solves half the problem — it onboards the new cohort. This skill solves the other half: it offboards the departing cohort by producing handoff memos that capture what the next student needs to know about every active case.

Without this, case knowledge walks out the door with the student. The new student starts from the case file and intake summary, which is never enough. Two weeks are wasted re-learning the case. The client experiences the re-learning as a regression — calls go unanswered, questions already answered get asked again.

In a UK law school clinic context there is also a supervision gap risk: if a case transitions without the supervising solicitor or barrister being aware of the full picture, the supervision coverage for that case may break down between terms. This skill makes that risk visible and manageable.

Audience

Supervising solicitor/barrister or departing students. The supervisor runs it to orchestrate the full cohort offboarding; individual students can run it on their own cases if they're transitioning mid-term (end of placement, withdrawal).

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 9d ago First seen · 197 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 747ec2c66604

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semester-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,489 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 2026-09-03.

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