codex-handoff

codex-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zjp1997720/zhijian-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (576 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff tool that moves an oversized or slow coding task into a fresh, user-visible task while carrying over a compact summary of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explicitly rolling over a task or transferring work to a fresh conversation. It records the objective, completed work, remaining work, blockers, and relevant files.
Why use it?
It prevents a long task from losing its decisions, evidence, constraints, and unfinished work when a new task is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when explicitly rolling over a task or transferring work to a fresh conversation. It records the objective, completed work, remaining work, blockers, and relevant files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zjp1997720/zhijian-skills/codex-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 zjp1997720/zhijian-skills --skill codex-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zjp1997720/zhijian-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 576 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 $0.00053 $0.00576
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00288
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 12d ago against content hash b8f70fcb9c16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tests/test_contract.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/codex-handoff/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Handoff

Preconditions

  • Explicit invocation approves one user-owned task. Arguments set its focus; otherwise recover the current objective from verified context.
  • Require list_projects and create_thread. If unavailable, stop; do not substitute a shell command or Markdown file.

Build the continuity prompt

Write a self-contained prompt of roughly 2,000–4,000 Chinese characters or comparable size. Prefer smaller when links carry detail. Include:

  • objective and first action;
  • completed work and current state;
  • decisions, constraints, and material rejected alternatives;
  • authoritative files, plans, issues, commits, diffs, or URLs;
  • verification performed and failures observed;
  • remaining work, blockers, fragile state, and transient paths;
  • relevant installed Skills.

Point to authoritative artifacts instead of reproducing them. Omit transcript history, large diffs or status output, repeated reasoning, secrets, credentials, and unrelated personal information. Mark transient paths as fragile. End with: read active instructions, verify current state, and begin the first action now.

Create the fresh task

  1. Resolve the current saved project with list_projects; obey project and host environment rules. Never guess another project or silently fall back to projectless. If the target omits material uncommitted state, stop and state the risk.
  2. Call create_thread with the compact prompt. Omit model and reasoning overrides unless explicitly requested.
  3. For a ready threadId, title it with set_thread_title and take one bounded wait_threads snapshot; do not wait for completion. For only clientThreadId, report setup as queued, not running.
  4. Return a one-line summary and the created-task directive. Claim only the returned state.
  5. Stop work in the old task. Keep it as history; do not archive it or keep editing the shared workspace.

Exclusions

  • Do not use fork_thread; full-history copies defeat the context reset.
  • Do not spawn a subagent; delegation is not a user-owned continuation task.
  • Do not use handoff_thread; it moves another task's Git environment.
  • Do not create or resume a handoff document; that is a file-oriented workflow.
  • Do not trigger on ordinary requests to continue in the current task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 46 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A b8f70fcb9c16

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codex-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository zjp1997720/zhijian-skills (595 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 576 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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