claude-handoff

claude-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN. It costs 24 tokens per session (298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff process that starts a fresh background Claude agent with a summary of the current conversation. The new agent continues in the same working directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transfer an unfinished coding task to another background agent. It includes relevant artifacts by path or URL and recommends useful skills for the next session.
Why use it?
It lets work continue when the current session is too long or needs a clean context. The summary preserves the important status and next steps without copying existing project documents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 38 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to transfer an unfinished coding task to another background agent. It includes relevant artifacts by path or URL and recommends useful skills for the next session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/claude-handoff
About the project

mattpocock-skills-zh-CN is a Simplified Chinese localization of a collection of reusable instructions for coding agents. Chinese-speaking developers use the translated skills to support engineering workflows while keeping their original commands, paths, identifiers, and behavior. The catalogue contains the localized skills, instructions, and plugin components.

vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN · 5,357 stars · on GitHub · skills.sh

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 vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN --skill claude-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills.

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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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 298 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 22 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 22 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00024 $0.00298
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00119
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aeb9797b4d9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-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 1mo 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/in-progress/claude-handoff/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

为当前对话写一份 handoff summary,让一个全新的 agent 可以继续工作。不要把它保存下来,而是启动一个以这份 summary 作为 prompt 的 background agent:claude --bg --name "<descriptive name>" "<handoff summary>"。它会在当前工作目录中启动并立即返回;用户用 claude agents 管理它。

始终带上 -n/--name 并给出描述性名称(例如 --name "Fix login bug")——它设置显示名称,会出现在 job list、session picker 和 terminal title 中。

在 summary 中包含一个 "suggested skills" section,写明下一个 agent 应调用 Skill 工具并指定哪些 skills。

不要重复其它 artifacts(PRDs、plans、ADRs、issues、commits、diffs)中已经记录的内容,改为用 path 或 URL 引用它们。

删去任何敏感信息,例如 API keys、passwords 或个人身份信息——这份 summary 会成为 agent 的 prompt。

如果用户传入了 arguments,把它们当作对下一个 session 重点的描述,并据此调整 summary。

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. 1mo ago Changed aeb9797b4d9e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A fdb0b67a1f80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN (5,357 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 298 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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