#handoffs
Every post tagged "handoffs".
14 posts · showing 11–14
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Should Agents Talk in Prose or in Schemas?
Prose carries the nuance your schema didn't anticipate — and dissolves it across three hops, turning "probably rounding" into an established fact. Structured with a bounded escape hatch, and a rule for when to promote.
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Delegating to a Human as If They Were an Agent
Same interface, same contract, same result shape — a person is a worker with hours of latency and much better context. Which makes suspendable runs the prerequisite, not a nice-to-have.
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When the Worker Needs to Ask the Supervisor a Question
A blocked worker with no channel back will guess, and the guess is invisible in what it returns. Making "needs input" a result type costs nothing — and the questions it logs are a to-do list for your delegation template.
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The Supervisor That Became a Bottleneck: When Not to Add a Second Agent
Splitting a task across agents adds a boundary, and every boundary quietly drops context. Here's the test for whether your second agent is buying isolation or just paying double for a worse answer.