Agent Handoff
Agent handoff is the controlled transfer of a task — with its context — from one agent to another agent or to a human.
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A handoff passes control plus a context package (goal, work done, open questions, constraints) to the next actor. Good handoffs are explicit contracts: the receiving agent gets a structured payload, not a raw transcript. Handoff failures are the single most common cause of quality loss in multi-agent systems.
What is Agent Handoff?
A handoff passes control plus a context package (goal, work done, open questions, constraints) to the next actor. Good handoffs are explicit contracts: the receiving agent gets a structured payload, not a raw transcript. Handoff failures are the single most common cause of quality loss in multi-agent systems.
What is an example of Agent Handoff?
A triage agent classifies a ticket as 'billing', writes a 5-field summary, and hands off to the billing agent, which never sees the full chat history.
Why does Agent Handoff matter for AI and automation?
Agent handoff is the controlled transfer of a task — with its context — from one agent to another agent or to a human. It connects to the workflows, prompts and tool stacks linked on this page, so you can move from definition to execution without leaving Onexial.