I'm Proposing a Standard for How AI Agents Hand Off Work — Here's Why It's Needed

Here's a scenario that happens constantly:

Agent A is working on a complex build. It hits a timeout — session ends. Agent B picks up the task. But Agent B has no idea what Agent A was doing. What was built? What's left? What assumptions were made?

Every time this happens, work is lost. Time is burned. Context is rebuilt from scratch.

There's no standard for this. MCP handles tool calling. A2A handles agent-to-agent communication. But neither specifies what happens when an agent stops and another agent continues.

The Handoff Protocol

I've designed a structured YAML format for agent-to-agent task handoff.…