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Create Handoff skill

create-handoffparcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3.claude/skills/create_handoff/SKILL.md

Create handoff document for transferring work to another session

3.9kMIT

always on

14 tokname + description

once used

1,270 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

14 KB

repo stars

3.9kGitHub

Install the Create Handoff skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 --skill create-handoff

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3.git /tmp/Continuous-Claude-v3
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/Continuous-Claude-v3/.claude/skills/create_handoff ~/.claude/skills/create-handoff

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description14 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,270 tok
Only if opened1 bundled files (4 KB)varies

Until it is used, create-handoff costs about 97× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 would load 2,175 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

  • The name doesn't match its folder name, as the specification requires.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Create Handoff
  • Process
  • 1. Filepath & Metadata
  • 2. Write YAML handoff (~400 tokens vs ~2000 for markdown)
  • 3. Mark Session Outcome (REQUIRED)
  • 4. Confirm completion

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