Agent Handoff Protocols: How to Transfer State Between Specialized Agents Without Context Loss
The structured handoff format that makes multi-agent pipelines actually reliable
Brian Gagne
CTO of Kief Studio. 20+ years technology consulting. Cisco Certified Ethical Hacker, UPenn AI for Business, Perplexity AI Business Fellow. Builds the tools Qurtoo teaches you to use.
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Building Retry Logic Into Agent Prompts: Self-Healing Workflows That Don't Need Human Intervention
Teach your agent to detect its own failures, diagnose the cause, and try a different approach
Tool-Use Prompt Design That Prevents Hallucinated Function Calls in Production
Why your agent invents tools that don't exist and the three-line fix that stops it
The Supervisor-Worker Agent Pattern: One Smart Model Plans, Cheap Models Execute
How to architect multi-agent systems that cost 90% less than running Opus on everything
Context Engineering for Agents: Manage What Your LLM Sees Across 50 Turns Without Losing the Thread
The 2026 skill that replaced prompt engineering as the bottleneck for agentic systems
Prompt Decomposition: Break One Complex Prompt Into Five Simple Ones and Get Better Results for Less Money
The cost and quality math behind splitting monolithic prompts into chains
Persona Stacking: Layer Multiple Roles in One System Prompt for Expert-Level Output
Why 'You are a senior engineer who also reviews for security' beats single-role prompts
Meta-Prompting: Write Prompts That Generate Better Prompts Than You Can
Use frontier models to improve their own instructions with measurable improvement loops
The Negative Prompt Pattern: Tell the LLM What NOT to Do and Watch Quality Jump
Why exclusion constraints are more effective than inclusion instructions for complex tasks
Few-Shot Prompting Is Dead Weight in 2026: When Zero-Shot With Constraints Outperforms Examples
The counterintuitive cases where removing examples improves output quality
How Accountants Are Using AI to Draft Client Advisory Letters in Half the Time
The prompts that turn raw financials into client-ready advisory letters, and the judgment calls AI can't make for you
Prompts for Product Managers: From User Research Synthesis to PRD Generation
The PM prompt toolkit that replaces 6 hours of synthesis work with 20 minutes