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The cost of Handoff is that triage cannot merge multiple answers; the cost of Agent-as-Tool is that the expert only knows what is in the task string, and if the string omits details, the expert has no way to know them.
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AI Agent Handoff Mechanisms: The Fundamental Difference Between Handoff and Agent-as-Tool
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