handoff

Name: handoff Review
Item: handoff
Rating: 2.3
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Productivity Poor

Works inClaude Code

Poor Scanned — metadata only

Enables engineers to offload routine coding and analysis tasks to DeepSeek without context-switching, reducing cycle time and keeping focus on high-value arc…

CLI that lets coding agents hand work to each other. From Claude Code or Codex, dispatch tasks to DeepSeek with /handoff-ds for cheap, fast execution, or borrow Opus or Codex for hard problems and bring the answer back — no new terminal, no re-explaining context. Tasks run in the background without blocking your session, and you can resume a previous handoff session with follow-up work.

Delegate code review tasks to DeepSeek while staying in your Claude session
Ask Claude to hand off complex calculations to DeepSeek for parallel processing
Automate routine documentation updates by delegating to DeepSeek mid-workflow

83 starsFreeQuick setup

Below standard — Significant caveats apply. Not recommended without careful review of the security and evaluation sections.

Why it matters

Enables engineers to offload routine coding and analysis tasks to DeepSeek without context-switching, reducing cycle time and keeping focus on high-value architectural decisions.

Best for

Development teams using Claude for code generation who need to parallelize task execution across multiple AI models.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/dazuiba/handoff

By dazuiba

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Instructions to paste into Claude

uv tool install handoff-cli
handoff init

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me delegate code review tasks to DeepSeek while staying in my Claude session

Prerequisitesuv; Claude Code (CLI or desktop) or Codex installed and logged in; a DeepSeek API token for the DeepSeek backend (Opus/Codex backends reuse your existing logins)CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars83Contributors2Last updated2026-08-02Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-08-18 · scanner v1

Community Pulse Growing

Discussed on Hacker News

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3 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 60 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license no license.

Things to check

Scanned, not hands-on tested — this entry was auto-scanned from public metadata (GitHub metrics, license, security flags). No reviewer has run it, and no tool-specific limitations have been documented yet.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

1/5

Versatility

3/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score2.30 / 5.00 PoorEvaluatedJun 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 60 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license no license.

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