The handoff brief: what to write before a coding agent starts
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Most agent runs that go sideways don't fail at the code. They fail at the handoff. The task lived in someone's head and the prompt carried only half of it. The diff that comes back answers a slightly different question than the one we meant to ask. Reviewing it then means working backwards from the…
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- 2026-10-17 08:51 · DEV Community — AI
The handoff brief: what to write before a coding agent starts