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Handoff patterns are your agent's worst enemy, unless you implement them this way

I spent six weeks debugging a handoff that looked perfect in the trace. The planner produced a clean, well-structured plan. The executor followed it step by step.

  • Handoff Tax causes information loss in agent chains
  • Structured handoff representation improves downstream feasibility
  • A2A protocol with stateful Task object mitigates Handoff Tax

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