handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wenlan-app/wenlan. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,076 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

An end-of-session workflow for Wenlan, a project-memory tool. It saves durable notes, writes a chronological session log, and updates the current project brief, which is a concise snapshot of ongoing work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when stopping work to record captures, update the project brief, and create a session record.
Why use it?
It turns a work session into reusable project context instead of leaving decisions and progress only in chat.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when stopping work to record captures, update the project brief, and create a session record.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,076 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00039 $0.02076
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00830
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00208

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7accd8de64d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

handoff scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • handoff — 94% identical, 40 lines differ
plugin-codex/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/handoff

Close the session with three separate artifacts:

  1. A typed update to the daemon-owned Space Brief.
  2. Durable MCP captures in that Space.
  3. A chronological session log in ~/.wenlan/sessions/.

The daemon Brief is current-work authority. Its ~/.wenlan/sessions/_status/<space>.md projection is a one-way human receipt. Never read, edit, or overwrite that receipt as authority.

1. Resolve repository and Space

handoff_arg="<the Space name passed to /handoff, empty when none>"
# The resolver ships inside the installed plugin; the relative path only
# exists in a wenlan checkout.
resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
resolved="$("${resolver:-plugin-codex/bin/resolve-space.sh}" --cwd "$PWD" --arg "$handoff_arg" --new-repo-fallback 2>/dev/null)"
space="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f1)"
source_layer="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f2)"

If the user passed a Space name (/handoff <space>), pass it as --arg <space> to resolve-space.sh.

Print space and source_layer. Explicit pins, defaults, and mappings still win. cwd-repo-new is the approved first-handoff fallback: use the canonical repository basename, which the user can override through normal Space config. Do not invent any other Space name.

Outside a Git repository, do not derive a new Space from the directory basename. If resolution still leaves space empty, skip the Brief read and typed update, do not issue Space-scoped captures, and continue with the unscoped session log and any unscoped durable captures. Outside a Git repository, a pin, explicit argument, default, or mapping still resolves a Space, and the Brief update and captures still run.

2. Read the Brief before composing deltas

W="$(command -v wenlan || echo "$HOME/.wenlan/bin/wenlan")"
brief_before=""
daemon_down=0
if [ -n "$space" ]; then
  "$W" --format json status >/dev/null 2>&1 || daemon_down=1
  if [ "$source_layer" = "cwd-repo-new" ]; then
    space_probe_status=0
    space_probe="$("$W" --format json spaces show "$space" 2>&1)" || space_probe_status=$?
    if [ "$space_probe_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      daemon_down=0
      brief_before="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief)"
      source_layer="cwd-repo"
    elif [ "$space_probe" = "Error: space '$space' not found" ]; then
      : # absent Space: the typed update creates it
    elif [ "$daemon_down" = 1 ]; then
      brief_before=""
      echo "Wenlan is not running; this handoff will be saved locally and sync when it starts"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$space_probe" >&2
      exit "$space_probe_status"
    fi
  else
    brief_status=0
    brief_output="$("$W" --format json --space "$space" brief 2>&1)" || brief_status=$?
    if [ "$brief_status" -eq 0 ]; then
      daemon_down=0
      brief_before="$brief_output"
    elif [ "$daemon_down" = 1 ]; then
      brief_before=""
      echo "Wenlan is not running; this handoff will be saved locally and sync when it starts"
    else
      printf "%s\n" "$brief_output" >&2
      exit "$brief_status"
    fi
  fi
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 3d ago Changed · +3 lines · -2 tokens per session 7accd8de64d7
  2. 4d ago First seen · 201 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B 95fb152b0255

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository wenlan-app/wenlan (82 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,076 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-11.