handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit. It costs 54 tokens per session (932 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An end-of-session record saved in the project's memory folder. It summarizes completed work, unfinished tasks, blockers, checks to run, and decisions still waiting for the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handing off unfinished work, recording a milestone, documenting a deployment or migration in progress, and helping a future session resume quickly.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work stops or another developer or session takes over.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 932 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00054 $0.00932
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4112819103f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff

Write an end-of-session handoff summary so the next session — yours, your teammate's, or a future-you's — can resume work without losing context.

When to use

  • End of a working session, even a short one, if work is left unfinished.
  • Before stepping away from a long-running task (deploy in progress, migration mid-flight, large refactor in progress).
  • Before switching contexts to a different project.
  • After a meaningful milestone (feature shipped, decision made, blocker hit).

Operating method

Read the current session transcript and produce a structured summary. Save it to .claude/memory/handoffs/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md. If a handoff already exists for today, append to it (don't overwrite — sessions can resume mid-day).

Sections to populate

---
name: handoff-<YYYY-MM-DD>-<HH-MM>
type: handoff
description: <one-line: what was the focus today?>
created: <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ>
---

# Handoff — <date>

## Focus today
<2–3 sentences. The actual goal, not the title.>

## What we did
- <specific change, with file paths or commit refs>
- <…>

## What's left for next session
- [ ] <task 1, with enough detail to start cold>
- [ ] <task 2>

## Blocked / waiting
- <blocker, who/what we're waiting on, when expected>

## Decisions made
- <decision> — chosen because <reason>. Reversible if <condition>.

## Decisions awaiting the user
- <question> — needs answer before <next step>.

## To verify before continuing
- <test that should still pass>
- <metric that should still be in budget>
- <thing the user said they'd check>

## Surprises / things I learned
- <non-obvious fact about the codebase or domain>
  (if it'll matter beyond this week, also save as a project memory)

## Open files / branches
- Branch: <name>
- Uncommitted files: <list>
- Stash entries: <list>

## Next concrete action
<the single first thing to do next session — small enough to not need re-thinking>

Update the index

Append to .claude/memory/MEMORY.md:

## Handoffs
- [<YYYY-MM-DD>](memory/handoffs/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md) — <focus from description>

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 4112819103f3

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 932 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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