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AI agent glossary

Hand-off

A hand-off is the point where work passes from an AI agent to a person, or from a person to an agent.

Good agent design names every hand-off in advance and says who receives it and what they check.

By Drayton Highlander, industrial engineer, DH Studios

How we use it at DH Studios

A person approves every hand-off.

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Specified. Built. Signed off.

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