Human handoff
Move work between agent and human without dropping context or leaving the user stranded.
5 patterns in this family
Same kind of element, used at different moments of the task.
Escalation to human
A clear transition from agent to person, with the switch of actor made obvious.
Shared review queue
Agent output waiting on people, with assignment, priority and age visible to the team.
Context packet transfer
A compact briefing — what was tried, what is known, what the ask is — handed to the receiving human.
Mid-stream takeover
A human takes the controls without cancelling the run, then hands back.
Return to agent
After human work, the agent resumes with the correction folded in and says what it now knows.
Critique checklist for human handoff
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