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Handoff
Human Handoff
How agents return work to humans — summaries, diffs, and receipts.
Observed Examples
The MCP client facilitates navigation to a browser URL, transferring the sensitive interaction entirely out of the agent pipeline to a human-controlled user-agent.
The paper examines when and how control should transfer back to humans, arguing current handoff designs erode the cognitive readiness required to accept control effectively.
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