Agent Handoff Protocols Design clean, reliable protocols for passing tasks and context between AI agents. When to Use - Agents need to pass work to each other - Context must be preserved across agent transitions - Building agent pipelines or workflows - Implementing specialized agent chains Handoff Fundamentals What Gets Transferred Handoff States Protocol Patterns Pattern 1: Direct Handoff Simple point-to-point transfer. Pattern 2: Queued Handoff For async/decoupled systems. Pattern 3: Brokered Handoff Intermediary manages transfers. Context Transfer Strategies Strategy 1: Full Context Trans…