handoff

A conversation handoff document compresses the essential thread of a discussion into a structured summary, preserving important decisions, open questions, and next actions so the next agent can resume without rereading everything.

You need a session summary for task continuity when transitioning work between agents to prevent context loss, ensuring the next session receives concise context transfer of decisions and open questions without rereading the entire conversation.

The handoff process redacts sensitive information such as credentials and personal data before saving the output document to the user's temporary directory, ensuring safe context transfer between agents.

The best way to maintain concise documentation during agent-to-agent transitions is to use reference-first handoff documents that point to existing artifacts instead of duplicating content, keeping the summary compact and maintainable.

A limitation of reference-first documentation in a handoff summary is that it depends on existing artifacts remaining accessible; if referenced files are moved or deleted, the next agent may lose critical context needed to resume the task.