How this term is used In this channel's material, a handoff system is the mechanism by which one AI agent passes its work — and its accumulated context — to the next agent in a pipeline. The concept shows up in the episode on Spiral, the AI writing partner: Spiral was rebuilt from a one-shot text transformer into a multi-agent system, and its handoff design is presented as the way the tool avoids context rot — the degradation of quality that happens when a single agent's context window fills with too much at once. Instead of one model doing everything, the work moves between specialized agents, each receiving only what it needs from the previous step. The same episode also describes the intake side of that handoff: before drafting, Spiral interviews you, gathering the context it will need before passing anything downstream. In short, when this material says handoff system, it refers to how a multi-agent tool routes context and tasks between agents so the overall output stays coherent and high-quality.