handoff-resume

handoff-resume is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vertiso/memory-vscode. It costs 49 tokens per session (426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for resuming unfinished work from a handoff—a saved summary of another session’s state and next steps. It checks the handoff against the current project before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding open handoffs, selecting and claiming one, checking its recorded state, and identifying where to resume.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of continuing from outdated assumptions or duplicating work from an earlier session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding open handoffs, selecting and claiming one, checking its recorded state, and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vertiso/memory-vscode/handoff-resume
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Vertiso/memory-vscode --skill handoff-resume
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vertiso/memory-vscode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 426 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 $0.00049 $0.00426
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00213
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 6d ago against content hash 56c7d4430480, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-resume 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 6d 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-resume/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Handoff Resume

Resume a prior session from a handoff — verifying before operating.

Announce: "Using the handoff-resume skill to pick up a prior session."

When to use

  • The user runs /handoff-resume.
  • hello reported open handoffs at session start.

Procedure

  1. Call handoff_resume (the MCP tool, or vmem handoff-resume) with no claim argument — this returns the live set of open handoffs.
  2. Branch on the count:
    • 0 — nothing to resume; stop here.
    • 1 — carry it forward.
    • >1 — interactive pick: present one option per handoff (its scope, the writing agent, a one-line state), pre-flagging any that look stale; let the user choose.
  3. Claim the chosen handoff — call handoff_resume again with claim: <id>. Claiming archives it so a parallel session resuming concurrently cannot re-grab it.
  4. Do the recipient diligence the handoff's slot-6 advisory calls for, before operating. Verify the slot-3 "where it stands" state against current reality. Re-confirm any decision or approval recorded in slot 2. The handoff carries its claims honestly, but the world may have moved.
  5. Present the reconciled picture and the concrete pick-up point to the user.

Why verify

The handoff author distinguished what was done from what was believed, but cannot know what changed since. Verification is the recipient's job — do it before you operate, not after.

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. 6d ago First seen · 44 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 56c7d4430480

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handoff-resume is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vertiso/memory-vscode (0 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 426 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 2026-08-31.

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