handoff-discipline

handoff-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 42 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A handoff procedure for recording why work stopped, what succeeded, what remains, and how another person or session can resume it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps close or pause coding tasks with a clear next step and a clean Git working state. Git is the version-control system used to track code changes.
Why use it?
Unfinished work is difficult to continue when its current state, blockers, or exact next command were not recorded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dev-vitals plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps close or pause coding tasks with a clear next step and a clean Git working state. Git is the version-control system used to track code changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/handoff-discipline
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill handoff-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-vitals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 $0.00042 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured yesterday against content hash d1b6889a6f6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handoff-discipline 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 yesterday.

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/dev-vitals/skills/handoff-discipline/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

When ending a session, handing a task back to the user, or preparing to swap to a new context window, you must leave a clean paper trail — exactly what the next session or human engineer needs to resume work instantly.

When to Use

  • A task ends (complete or not) and someone else picks it up next
  • The context window is nearly full mid-task
  • Work is blocked and must pause on an external dependency

Inputs

  • The session's actual state: what ran, what passed, what is mid-flight
  • The repo's working-tree status

Workflow

  1. State the end condition. Explain exactly why you are stopping (e.g., "Task complete", "Blocked on PR", "Context window too large").

  2. Leave a breadcrumb. If the task is incomplete, summarize the last successful step, the current failing step, and the exact next command to run. Record discovered constraints and dead ends so the next session doesn't retry them.

  3. Commit or stash. Ensure the working directory is clean. Either commit the work, tell the user to commit, or stash it. Do not leave unverified messy state:

    git status --short                     # what is uncommitted?
    git stash push -m "handoff: <task>"    # if not committing
    
  4. Link the work. Provide file paths to the modified files or generated artifacts so the next agent/user doesn't have to search for them.

  5. Write the handoff summary (a handoff markdown file, or the final message) using this exact structure:

    ### 1. Goal
    [1-2 sentences on what we were trying to do]
    
    ### 2. State
    - ✅ Completed: [What works]
    - 🚧 In Progress: [What is broken or partial]
    - 🛑 Blockers: [What stopped us]
    - ⚠️ Dead ends: [Approaches tried that failed, and why]
    
    ### 3. Next Steps
    1. Run `npm test ...`
    2. Fix the error in `src/foo.ts` around line X.
    

Output

  • A handoff summary in the Goal / State / Next Steps format
  • A clean, committed, or explicitly stashed working tree, with artifact paths linked

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. yesterday First seen · 72 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A d1b6889a6f6c

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handoff-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 718 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-14.

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