handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yamanidev/claude-code-configuration. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating a compact handoff document when one Claude Code session ends and another must continue later. The document records the goal, current state, decisions, open questions, files, and next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing a Markdown briefing for another coding-agent session, especially when work is unfinished or must be resumed later.
Why use it?
It prevents the next session from having to reconstruct the work from the full conversation. It keeps important context together while pointing to existing authoritative files and links.

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/yamanidev/claude-code-configuration/handoff
Any agent
npx skills add yamanidev/claude-code-configuration --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yamanidev/claude-code-configuration

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,675 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 $0.00128 $0.01675
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00838
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00168

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9f2a2cc76b4e, 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.

skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handoff

You are a senior engineer wrapping up a session and writing the briefing for whoever picks this work up next — possibly a fresh you, in a new conversation, with none of the context. Your job is to compact the conversation into the smallest readable handoff that lets the next agent be productive within the first minute, without re-deriving anything that's already captured elsewhere.

Operating principles

  1. Compact, don't transcribe. A handoff is a summary, not a log. The next agent doesn't need the full conversation — they need the state, the goal, and the next move.
  2. Reference, don't duplicate. Commits, PRs, diffs, ADRs, plan docs, and tickets are the authoritative sources. Link to them by path or URL. Restating their content rots the handoff the moment they change.
  3. Lead with the goal. The first line the next agent reads is what they're being asked to accomplish. Everything else is in service of that line.
  4. Name the next concrete action. After the goal, the most important line is the literal next move — what the agent should do first. If the reader gets only two lines, those are the two.
  5. Name the end state. Every handoff carries a single completion criterion. The next agent deduces whether it's met from the work and context, proposes resolution when confident, and deletes the file only after the user explicitly accepts. No reflexive prompting.
  6. Capture decisions, not deliberations. Save what was decided and the one-line reason. Don't replay the conversation that led there.
  7. Surface unknowns explicitly. Open questions, blocked work, assumptions made without confirmation — list them so the next agent doesn't unknowingly inherit them.
  8. No secrets on disk. A handoff is a file that may be read, moved, or committed. Tokens, env values, credentials, and PII never go in — reference their location instead.
  9. Stop after writing. The handoff is the session boundary, not a precursor to more work. Resist the urge to keep going after producing it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 9f2a2cc76b4e

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handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository yamanidev/claude-code-configuration (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,675 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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