Decentralized Model and Handoff

No central controller: peer agents decide when to handoff, request feedback, or report issues. Examples by degree of authenticity: MetaGPT – SOP pipeline with standardized docs as interfaces plus a pub/sub message pool (decoupling, but role order is fixed); group chat AutoGen – shared history + centralized speaker selector; OpenAI Swarm/Agents SDK – genuinely peer-to-peer handoff network: control passes by relay, routing is distributed. What is passed without shared context: task description, confirmed facts & constraints, artifact references – not the full trajectory. Risk: handoff loops – an upper bound is needed.

Related: [Interaction Topologies], [A2A Protocol], [Shared vs. Separate Context]