handoff-generator

handoff-generator is a skill for Claude Code from vidhunnan/agentic-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (4,934 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided tool for creating a complete project handoff: a document that explains the project's status, history, decisions, changes, open questions, and next steps. It is designed to pass work between chat, coding tools, or people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when handing a project to a teammate, moving between Claude.ai and Claude Code, or starting a new session with the same context.
Why use it?
It prevents the next person or session from having to reconstruct what happened and what remains to be done.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the handoff-generator plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it when handing a project to a teammate, moving between Claude.ai and Claude Code, or starting a new session with the same context.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handoff-generator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,934 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 $0.00152 $0.04934
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.02467
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00987
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00493

Measured 10d ago against content hash fbf9ec693c5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-generator 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-generator/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

handoff-generator

Produces a comprehensive project handoff: a portable Markdown document that captures the whole state of the work — what the project is, where it stands, how it got here, its features, decisions, what this session changed, open questions, referenced files, and next actions — so the work can continue on another surface (Claude.ai chat ↔ Claude Code) or with another person, without re-explaining anything. It is the shape of the two reference handoffs, not a one-line brief.

Three things make this skill different from a one-shot summarizer:

  • It is comprehensive. The output is a full project handoff (~11 sections), not a five-line brief. It carries progress, a timeline, feature/component status, a changelog delta, and a near-verbatim log of the session conversation alongside decisions and next actions.
  • It is bidirectional and surface-aware. The handoff can go chat→code, code→chat, or to some other destination (a fresh chat, a teammate, another Claude Code session). The section shape is the same on both surfaces; the sourcing differs — on Claude Code it is verified against the repo (git, changelog, decisions, PRDs); on Claude.ai it is drawn from the conversation. You decide the destination with the user and shape the handoff for it.
  • It never runs autonomously. You always interview the user briefly first, gather the real intent and context, and only then generate. Do not rush straight to output.

Instructions

Step 0 — Detect your surface

You run on two surfaces that behave differently. Decide which one you are on before anything else, using Bash availability as the discriminator:

  • Claude Code — you have a working Bash tool and a real project filesystem. If you can run a shell command, you are on Claude Code. Use the file + folder + resume behavior below.
  • Claude.ai — you have no shell/Bash and no persistent project folder. If Bash is unavailable, you are on Claude.ai. Produce a downloadable artifact instead of writing a file; skip all folder and resume logic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 359 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A fbf9ec693c5d

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handoff-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository vidhunnan/agentic-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 4,934 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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