Agent Handoff
Category: Agents“AY-jent HAND-off”
Passing a job — with its notes and context — from one agent to another, or to a person, without losing the thread.
Lesson #6: The Agentic Era: Agents That Do the Work →A shift change where the outgoing crew briefs the incoming one.
A chat bot passes you to a human and the human already sees what you asked.
The scheduling agent hands the punch list to the site lead with photos attached.
The support agent escalates a billing case with the full history, so nobody repeats themselves.
Most agent failures show up at the handoff, where context quietly gets dropped.
An agent handoff passes work plus context to the next worker.
Write the three facts that must travel with a job when you hand it to someone else.
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