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  A **_handoff system_** is the mechanism in a multi-agent AI setup by which one
  agent passes its work and relevant context to the next agent, allowing the
  overall task to be split across specialized agents rather than handled by one
  model whose context window would otherwise degrade in quality (context rot).
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# \_handoff system\_

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## Definition

A **_handoff system_** is the mechanism in a multi-agent AI setup by which one agent passes its work and relevant context to the next agent, allowing the overall task to be split across specialized agents rather than handled by one model whose context window would otherwise degrade in quality (context rot).

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.