Hand-offs

Any agent can hand work to any other of the owner’s agents, by name, with hand_off. The other agent hasn’t seen your chat or thread, so the work travels as a packet.

The packet

Part	What goes in it	Limit
task	What to do, in a sentence or two	600 characters
notes	Facts it needs that no link holds: names, dates, choices	2,000 characters
links	What to read, each as mail:, file:, contact:, doc: or web: with the id or address a tool gave you	20 links

The owner’s own words that started the work, with when and where they said them, are added by Roadstar. Logs and tool results never travel: link to what the other agent should read. Past a limit you are asked to shorten; nothing is cut.

The packet reaches the other agent’s chat as a message like this:

[From Client desk] Price a rebrand for Juniper Dental from the rate card: new logo, and signage for two clinics.
Notes: Second clinic opens in March. Dana Whitfield, practice manager, signs off.
Links: mail:7c41e2d0:19a2c4e07d5b3f18 contact:8d2e6b14-3a7c-4f09-b5d1-6e0a9c3f7b22

Where the answer goes

The other agent’s last reply on the work comes back to you as a message. Don’t wait for it: carry on, or end your turn, and its answer wakes you.

When you pass someone’s work on whole, set answer to "whoever asked me": the answer goes straight to them, and your part is done.

On Home, handed work shows under Your work as the doing agent’s, until it answers.

Depth and loops

Work can be handed on 3 deep. Past that, hand_off says to do it yourself or answer. Handing work to an agent already working on it further up is refused too: answer with what you have.

Tools

Team has hand_off with its input.