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handoff

Prototype: /handoff opens a picker, writes a brief from a fork of the conversation, and starts the child in a herdr pane, tab or background session.

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopPaneBandToastBoxButtonInputText

What it does

  • Draws a pane, a band above the prompt, toasts
  • Hooks session.start
  • Keeps its own state between turns
  • Starts processes

Good points

  • No network calls
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Handles errors
  • Writes no files

Code to start from

Two kinds: a starter modscode writes from the design above, and the lines of the mod's own code that draw it.

Starter (register.tsx)

register.tsx
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'

// Drawn like handoff by Marc Modin (pane, band, toast), as modscode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/gallery/marcmodin-handoff/
// Written by modscode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
  // the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Handoff" })
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
    const { Box, Input, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const task = '…'
    const status = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
        <Input label="Task: " placeholder="what the new session should do (blank: infer from the conversation)" value={`${task}`} submitLabel="new pane" />
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2}>
          <Text dimColor>
            Context:
          </Text>
          <Button plain>
            Brief (selected)
          </Button>
          <Button plain>
            Full fork (selected)
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2} flexWrap="wrap">
          <Button variant="primary" autoFocus>
            New pane
          </Button>
          <Button>
            New tab
          </Button>
          <Button autoFocus>
            Background
          </Button>
          <Button>
            Copy brief
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Text color="red">
          {status}
        </Text>
        <Text dimColor>
          Esc cancels
        </Text>
      </Box>
    )
  })

  // the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const name = '…'
    const label = '…'
    const age = '…'
    const place = '…'
    const name2 = '…'
    const label2 = '…'
    const age2 = '…'
    const place2 = '…'
    const name3 = '…'
    const label3 = '…'
    const age3 = '…'
    const place3 = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" paddingX={1}>
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
          <Text color="gray">
            handoff
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {name}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {label}
          </Text>
          <Text color="gray">
            {age}
            {" · "}
            {place}
          </Text>
          <Button>
            jump
          </Button>
          <Button>
            compare
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
          <Text color="gray">
            handoff
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {name2}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {label2}
          </Text>
          <Text color="gray">
            {age2}
            {" · "}
            {place2}
          </Text>
          <Button>
            jump
          </Button>
          <Button>
            compare
          </Button>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
          <Text color="gray">
            handoff
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {name3}
          </Text>
          <Text wrap="truncate-end">
            {label3}
          </Text>
          <Text color="gray">
            {age3}
            {" · "}
            {place3}
          </Text>
          <Button>
            jump
          </Button>
          <Button>
            compare
          </Button>
        </Box>
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })

  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
    const message = '…'
    await $.ui.toast(`Brief copied to the clipboard`)
    await $.ui.toast(`handoff failed: ${message}`)
    return next(e)
  })
}

The mod's own code

Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.

mods/handoff/hooks/register.tsx lines 108–156 · Pane
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
    const ui = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const { Box, Text, Button } = ui
    const Input = 'Input' in ui ? ui.Input : undefined
    const p = await read($, picker)
    const inHerdr = (await $.env.get('HERDR_PANE_ID')) !== undefined
    const busy = p.phase === 'working'

    const go = (where: Where) => () => {
      void launch($, where)
    }

    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
        {Input && <Input
          key="task"
          label="Task: "
          placeholder="what the new session should do (blank: infer from the conversation)"
          value={p.task}
          onInput={(value: string) => void update($, picker, s => ({ ...s, task: value }))}
          onSubmit={go(inHerdr ? 'pane' : 'bg')}
          submitLabel={inHerdr ? 'new pane' : 'background'}
        />}
        <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2}>
          <Text dimColor>Context:</Text>
          <Button key="mode-brief" plain dimColor={p.mode !== 'brief'}
            onPress={() => void update($, picker, s => ({ ...s, mode: 'brief' as Mode }))}>
            {p.mode === 'brief' ? 'Brief (selected)' : 'Brief'}
          </Button>
          <Button key="mode-fork" plain dimColor={p.mode !== 'fork'}
            onPress={() => void update($, picker, s => ({ ...s, mode: 'fork' as Mode }))}>
            {p.mode === 'fork' ? 'Full fork (selected)' : 'Full fork'}
          </Button>
        </Box>
        {busy ? (
          <Text>{p.status}</Text>
        ) : (
          <Box flexDirection="row" gap={2} flexWrap="wrap">
            {inHerdr && <Button key="pane" variant="primary" autoFocus onPress={go('pane')}>New pane</Button>}
            {inHerdr && <Button key="tab" onPress={go('tab')}>New tab</Button>}
            <Button key="bg" autoFocus={inHerdr ? undefined : true} onPress={go('bg')}>Background</Button>
            <Button key="copy" onPress={go('copy')}>Copy brief</Button>
          </Box>
        )}
        {!busy && p.status !== '' && <Text color={p.phase === 'error' ? 'red' : undefined}>{p.status}</Text>}
        <Text dimColor>Esc cancels</Text>
      </Box>
    )
  })
mods/handoff/hooks/register.tsx lines 161–193 · Band
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const kids = await read($, children)
    if (e.props.hasSurvey || kids.length === 0) return next(e)
    await read($, checkedAt)
    const now = await $.clock.now()
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)

    // Click only, no hotkeys: a band hotkey would take a digit typed into an
    // empty prompt. Plain and dim, underlined under the pointer (plain wins over variant).
    const link = (scope: string) => ({ plain: true as const, dimColor: true, variant: 'primary' as const, hover: { scope, underline: true } })

    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round" paddingX={1}>
        {kids.map(c => {
          const isRunning = c.phase === 'running'
          const canCompare = isRunning && (c.state === 'idle' || c.state === 'done')
          const label = c.phase === 'running' ? c.state : c.step
          const color = c.phase === 'failed' ? 'red' : c.state.startsWith('waiting') || c.state === 'blocked' ? 'yellow' : c.state === 'done' ? 'green' : undefined
          const place = c.where === 'bg' ? `background ${c.id ?? ''}` : c.pane ?? ''
          return (
            <Box flexDirection="row" gap={1}>
              <Text color="gray">handoff</Text>
              <Text wrap="truncate-end">{c.name}</Text>
              <Text color={color} wrap="truncate-end">{label}</Text>
              {isRunning && <Text color="gray">{age(now - c.startedAt)} · {place}</Text>}
              {isRunning && <Button key={`jump:${c.key}`} {...link(`jump:${c.key}`)} onPress={() => void jump($, c)}>jump</Button>}
              {canCompare && <Button key={`compare:${c.key}`} {...link(`compare:${c.key}`)} onPress={() => void compare($, c)}>compare</Button>}
            </Box>
          )
        })}
      </Box>
    )
  })
Licence text (MIT)
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 MarcModin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

What its code calls

runs programsenv varsdrives Clauderemembers

The design, read from code

Drawn from the mod's source at the commit read, not from a run: a list is drawn three times, a condition takes its first branch that draws in the desktop app, and a value only the run time knows is shown as a made-up sample (dotted underline) or left out. Colours and type are this site's.

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit 250c0aeab7c2 on 2026-10-06. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.

Decides the listing: code you can check
Entry readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.mods/handoff/hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs
Calls in the openNetwork and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open
For you to weigh before installing
Where it drawsThe terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, the same in both
Install lineWhether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there
Programs on WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.mods/handoff/hooks/register.tsx:450 a program named at run time
Reads and sendsWhether it both reads files or environment variables and reaches the network.reaches no network
Keys in the sourceWhether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source
LicenceAn open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets modscode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.MIT

This is a reading of the code text, not a security review: it does not run the mod, and it cannot see what a program the mod starts does. The check before installing is yours. How mods are chosen

Install it

Check it yourself before you install it. Mods run unsandboxed, with your permissions, and modscode does not vouch for what this code does. Read the code below (or run claude plugin validate . in its folder), weigh what it reaches, and install the commit you read.

Its repository is its marketplace. Add that marketplace (in the terminal with these commands, or in the desktop app's plugin settings) and install the mod from it:

/plugin marketplace add marcmodin/skills
/plugin install handoff@marcmodin

This installs the marketplace's latest commit, which may not be the one read here (250c0aeab7c2). Compare them before you install.

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