handoff-recover skillA
handoff-recover is agent-read markdown (skill) from sting25/claude-code-handoff: Compose a retroactive curated handoff when the previous session ended without invoking /handoff. Requires the scripts/hooks installed by this repo's ./install.sh — not a prompt-only skill. Triggered by the SessionStart "ACTION: RUN /handoff-recover" banner (emitted when handoff_current.md still has the placeholder Notes block) or by explicit /handoff-recover. Reads the previous session's raw per-turn dump under .claude/handoff_backups/ and the most recent curated handoff under .claude/handoff_hi.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# /handoff-recover — retroactive handoff composition > **Prerequisite:** this skill leans on scripts and hooks from > https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff — the raw dumps it > recovers from are written by the Stop hook, and it runs > `handoff_recover_tail.sh` / `write_handoff.sh` from `~/.claude/bin/` > (script install) or the plugin's `bin/` (plugin install). > None of that ships with this file alone; run `./install.sh` from that > repo (or install the plugin) once per machine first. The previous session ended without running `/handoff` — crashed, killed, terminal closed, or just never invoked. `SessionEnd` wrote a safety-net snapshot, so `handoff_current.md` has git state but no curated Notes. The SessionStart hook detected this and printed an ACTION banner telling you to invoke this skill. Note: since the `PreCompact` hook joined the safety net, a placeholder can also be written MID-session (an uncurated session that hit auto or manual compaction), not only at session end — so this banner can appear even though the "previous session" is the same still-running conversation, freshly compacted. The recovery …
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How to install
mdr add sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover@git:20260811.ad203dbmdr add sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover@sha256:8f3bfd82c12748f3Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jnhwat55gvfozr23)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260811.ad203db latest | 2026-08-11 | ad203db | 18,790 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.9a69b76 | 2026-08-11 | 9a69b76 | 18,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.acc5d39 | 2026-08-11 | acc5d39 | 18,036 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.bdfc82c | 2026-08-11 | bdfc82c | 17,935 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.7d4af4f | 2026-08-11 | 7d4af4f | 16,483 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (18790 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
sting25/claude-code-handoff · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jnhwat55gvfozr23 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sting25/claude-code-handoff/handoff-recover GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f3bfd82c12748f3a1b0825699e863a688a57d92604e95bc8b226d08f50b53c3
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