# io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff (pypi · claude-handoff)

Session handoff for Claude Code: list sessions and build handoff docs another agent continues from.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- pypi · `claude-handoff`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `claude-handoff`
- Version: `0.19.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 23 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 151 tokens (~75/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 93/100
  - Stability observed for 28 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 86/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 57% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 2 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx claude-handoff. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add vasilispapg-claude-handoff -- uvx claude-handoff
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vasilispapg-claude-handoff": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "claude-handoff"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "vasilispapg-claude-handoff": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "claude-handoff"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add vasilispapg-claude-handoff -- uvx claude-handoff
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "vasilispapg-claude-handoff": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "claude-handoff"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add vasilispapg-claude-handoff --command uvx --arg claude-handoff
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  vasilispapg-claude-handoff:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["claude-handoff"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "vasilispapg-claude-handoff": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "claude-handoff"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add vasilispapg-claude-handoff -t stdio -c uvx -a claude-handoff
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vasilispapg-claude-handoff": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "claude-handoff"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-19 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-12 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-10 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-08 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-06 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-04 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (2)

### `list_sessions` (~43 tokens)

List Claude Code sessions on this machine, newest first: date, project, id, title and first prompt.

Input parameters:

- `project` (string): substring filter on the project path

### `handoff` (~108 tokens)

Build a clean handoff document (markdown) from a Claude Code session so another assistant can continue the work. Deterministic — no LLM calls, no cost.

Input parameters:

- `anonymize` (boolean)
- `include_tools` (boolean)
- `last` (integer): keep only the last N user turns
- `name` (string): newest session whose title or first prompt contains this
- `path` (string): explicit session .jsonl path
- `project` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 80
- 2026-09-19: 80
- 2026-09-18: 79
- 2026-09-17: 79
- 2026-09-16: 78
- 2026-09-15: 78
- 2026-09-14: 78
- 2026-09-13: 77
- 2026-09-12: 77
- 2026-09-11: 76
- 2026-09-10: 76
- 2026-09-09: 75
- 2026-09-08: 75
- 2026-09-07: 74
- 2026-09-06: 74
- 2026-09-05: 73
- 2026-09-04: 73
- 2026-09-03: 72
- 2026-09-02: 71
- 2026-09-01: 71
- 2026-08-31: 70
- 2026-08-30: 70
- 2026-08-29: 69
- 2026-08-28: 69
- 2026-08-27: 69
- 2026-08-26: 53
- 2026-08-25: 53
- 2026-08-24: 67
- 2026-08-23: 52

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff. Session handoff for Claude Code: list sessions and build handoff docs another agent continues from. This page covers its PyPI package (claude-handoff).

### Is the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server safe to use?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server expose?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff exposes 2 tools: list_sessions, handoff. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 151 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server still maintained?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff MCP server under?

io.github.Vasilispapg/claude-handoff declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/claude-handoff/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/claude-handoff
- Repository: https://github.com/Vasilispapg/claude-handoff
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vasilispapg-claude-handoff/claude-handoff