agent-handoff

agent-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wh0FF24/whoff-agents. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff-packet helper for giving another coding agent the context it needs before starting work. The packet records the task, relevant files, decisions, restrictions, previous attempts, and definition of done.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare structured instructions for a subagent, including the exact objective, required paths, constraints, and success criteria.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated investigation, unnecessary clarification questions, and incorrect assumptions during delegated work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps prepare structured instructions for a subagent, including the exact objective, required paths, constraints, and success criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wh0ff24/whoff-agents/agent-handoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wh0FF24/whoff-agents --skill agent-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wh0FF24/whoff-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,062 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 $0.00019 $0.01062
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00106

Measured 8d ago against content hash bfebb8c1a58d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 8d 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/agent-handoff/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Handoff Skill

You are preparing a handoff packet — the minimum context a subagent needs to execute correctly without asking clarifying questions, re-exploring dead ends, or hallucinating constraints.

Subagents fail for one reason: they receive a goal but not its shape. They don't know what you already tried, what's off-limits, what "done" looks like, or which files actually matter. This skill makes that implicit context explicit.

What You Will Do

  1. Extract from the current session:

    • The exact task to delegate (one sentence, actionable)
    • Decisions already made that the subagent must not re-litigate
    • Approaches tried and ruled out (with reasons)
    • Files/paths the subagent needs to touch (concrete, not vague)
    • The success criterion — how the subagent knows it's done
    • Hard constraints — what it must not do
  2. Write the handoff packet to .claude/handoff-<timestamp>.md:

# Agent Handoff — <ISO timestamp>

## Objective
[One sentence. Starts with a verb. Specific enough that no clarifying question is needed.]

## Context the subagent needs
- [Key fact 1 — architectural decision, API behavior, business rule]
- [Key fact 2]
- [Add only what would not be obvious from reading the files]

## Already tried — do not re-attempt
- [Approach]: [Why it failed or was ruled out]
- [Approach]: [Why it failed or was ruled out]

## Files to touch
- `path/to/file.ts` — [what to do here, optionally line number]
- `path/to/other.ts` — [what to do here]

## Hard constraints
- [MUST NOT]: [What the subagent must not change, call, or assume]
- [MUST NOT]: [...]

## Success criterion
- [ ] [Concrete, verifiable output — test passes, file exists, API returns X]
- [ ] [Second criterion if needed]

## If blocked
[What the subagent should do if it hits an unexpected blocker — escalate, write a findings file, skip and note, etc.]
  1. Echo the packet so you can verify it before dispatching.

  2. Copy the packet content into your Agent tool prompt or tmux dispatch command so the subagent has it inline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 8d ago First seen · 87 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A bfebb8c1a58d

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agent-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wh0FF24/whoff-agents (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,062 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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