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Agentic AI Foundations & Architectures

Agent Handoff

An agent handoff is the transfer of task control from one agent to another in a multi-agent pipeline. The handing-off agent packages the current task context, completed work, and remaining objectives into a structured message that the receiving agent can pick up without loss of continuity. Clean handoffs require well-defined interface contracts so the receiving agent does not need to re-derive context from scratch.