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Mid-Conversation Agent-to-Agent Handoff Design
How to hand off a live conversation from one specialist agent to another without losing context.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2agent handoff
- 3context transfer
- 4specialist routing
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Section 1
The premise
Specialist agents only work if handoffs preserve context, intent, and user trust.
What AI does well here
- Pass a structured handoff bundle (intent, history summary, open actions).
- Notify the user of the handoff and why.
- Allow the new agent to query the old one for clarification.
What AI cannot do
- Recover context that was never captured in handoff format.
- Avoid latency overhead of the handoff protocol.
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