handoff

handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zszz3/AgentRecall. It costs 26 tokens per session (304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff document for recording the current state of unfinished development work so another agent or session can continue it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture completed work, remaining tasks, relevant files, validation results, constraints, and a command for resuming the work.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work pauses, the session changes, or another agent takes over. It also keeps secrets and unrelated personal details out of the record.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to capture completed work, remaining tasks, relevant files, validation results, constraints, and a command for resuming the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zszz3/agentrecall/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 zszz3/AgentRecall --skill handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zszz3/AgentRecall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/handoff/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/handoff)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 304 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 $0.00026 $0.00304
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5e2f599aa487, 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.

apps/main-2.0/assets/bundled-skills/handoff/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Handoff

Produce a compact, evidence-based continuation record for a fresh agent.

Gather current state

  • Identify the user's latest goal and any later corrections that supersede earlier instructions.
  • Record the repository, branch, worktree state, relevant commits, and whether changes are committed or pushed.
  • List completed work with concrete file paths and behavior, not a chronological conversation recap.
  • List remaining work in dependency order. Include exact failing commands, errors, process IDs, ports, or external blockers when relevant.
  • Reference existing specs, plans, diffs, and artifacts instead of duplicating their contents.
  • Capture validation already run and its exact result. Never imply unrun checks passed.

Protect the user

Remove API keys, tokens, passwords, cookies, personal identifiers, and unrelated local information. Do not tell the next agent to overwrite or discard uncommitted work unless the user explicitly requested it.

Format

# Handoff
## Goal
## Current state
## Completed
## Remaining
## Key files
## Verification
## Constraints and decisions
## Suggested skills
## Resume command

Keep it short enough to read at session start. Save it to the operating system's temporary directory when file tools are available; otherwise return the Markdown directly. End with one exact command or action that safely resumes the work.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5e2f599aa487

Subscribe to this mod's changes

handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository zszz3/AgentRecall (594 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 304 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 2026-08-30.

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