Multi-Agent Handoff With Ownership Boundaries Nobody Crosses
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Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub - an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub A team I talked to had two agents in a loop for 14 minutes before the budget guard killed the run. The research agent kept handing back to the writer with status: "needs_more_sources". Neither agent had a definition of "done" the other one trusted. The orchestrator logged 47 handoffs and a $9.12 token bill before it tripped the circuit breaker. The fix was a contract, not a smarter prompt.