handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code from xobotyi/cc-foundry. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation handoff tool that turns project context into a document another coding agent or teammate can use after a session ends.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recording decisions, rejected options, resource references, verification status, remaining tasks, and codebase guidance.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions, constraints, and unfinished work from being lost across session restarts or team changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the the-workflow plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for recording decisions, rejected options, resource references, verification status, remaining tasks, and codebase guidance.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 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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Your own site
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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
  • 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 $0.00035 $0.01657
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00663
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00166

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e8d1bb061eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

plugins/the-workflow/skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A handoff document is a prompt. The receiver has no access to this conversation, so everything it needs must be on the page — and everything it does not need competes with what it does.

Mode

$mode selects the receiver. Empty means self.

  • self — the receiver holds your project knowledge. Task state, decisions, remaining work. No codebase orientation.
  • teammate — the receiver may hold none of it. Adds codebase orientation, skill and tool pointers, and conventions.

Triage

Two passes, in this order. A single pass sorts for precision and loses the subtle context that turns out to be load-bearing — which is the documented failure of aggressive compaction.

  1. Recall. Collect everything relevant. Over-collect; nothing is cut yet.
  2. Precision. Cut what the categories below mark as noise, and only then.

Keep — state that does not survive the boundary any other way:

  • Decisions and their rationale, including options considered and rejected. A rejected option that arrives without its reason gets proposed again by the receiver
  • Constraints discovered during the work
  • Contingencies — the failure modes you can foresee and the receiver cannot. "If the integration test still fails after a rebuild, it is the fixture cache, not the code." This is the element handoffs omit most often
  • External resource identifiers — URLs, issue IDs, file paths with line numbers, branch names, commit SHAs
  • Verification state, in both directions: what was checked and its result, and what was not checked
  • Negative state — work that looks started and is not. "No branch, no edit, no commit" stops the receiver assuming a base that does not exist
  • Remaining work in priority order
  • Blockers and open questions

Drop — noise in transfer:

  • Intermediate exploration and search paths
  • Content already committed to files or git history
  • Content already captured in an upstream artifact — a PRD, plan, ADR, or tracker issue. Reference it by path or ID
  • Anything derivable from the codebase — file structure, function signatures
  • Raw tool output

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 1mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6e8d1bb061eb

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (22 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,657 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 2026-09-04.

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