Handoff

The definition

The dated account one session, agent, or tenure leaves for the next: current state, decisions, unfinished work, and open questions. The successor verifies it before resuming; a handoff is evidence to examine, not fresh permission.

The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.

Related terms

• Agent

  Software that uses tools to carry out tasks and workflows — not just replying, but acting: calling APIs, running steps, making changes. Distinct from a…

• State

  The current condition of a user, workflow, task, or process — what persists between steps and sessions. Distinct from governed state, which adds provenance…

• Stateful agents

  Agent runtimes and frameworks that carry state across steps and tool calls within a task. Necessary for continuity but mostly scoped to a task or thread —…

• Continuity packet

  The compact handoff you give the next AI session so it can start from reviewed state instead of raw transcript. The template on the…

• Director’s Office

  The continuing office in this project’s research prototype. Its occupants, Directors, are AI model sessions working under the Owner’s authority; each named…

• Genesis

  This project’s governed record (the Genesis ledger). Decisions, state, permissions, checkpoints, receipts, and handoffs share one record, and later states…

• Succession

  The transfer of responsibility between occupants of a continuing office: recover the handoff, resolve current state, check authority, and record the new…

Where it shows up on this site

• Succession · ToolThe free Claude Code plugin: every session gets a name and a handoff
• Astrolobe Continuity · WatchlistAI project-continuity system. Astrolobe describes a product for carrying technical-project state, unresolved failures and validation evidence across sessions, tools, models and handoffs.
• MemSide · UnclearMemory exchange and project handoffs. The vendor describes PMX (Protocol for Memory Exchange), project state, tasks, handoffs, provenance and explicit approval, alongside personal memory.