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Agent Phase Handoff Patterns
Practical patterns for compressing and passing state between phases in multi-phase agent pipelines. Covers when to compress context, what to include in handoff summaries, and how to structure state objects to minimize context window growth while preserving continuity across phases.
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$ Confirm phase checkpoint success before compressing context
$ Build compact handoff: record counts, schema status, invalid rows, key stats, anomalies
$ Update single structured JSON state object in-place at each boundary
$ Log each phase transition with duration, summary, and next-phase target
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Agent Phase Handoff Patterns: Context-Efficient State Transfer
Agent Phase Handoff Patterns## Overview When building multi-phase agents, how you transfer state between phases dramatically impacts both correctness and token efficiency. Naive approaches (appending all outputs) cause context bloat; well-designed handoffs enable long-running pipelines. ## Core Pattern: Structured JSON State
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