Agents Don’t Really Talk. They Exchange Context — two agents connected by a handoff, not a chat bubble

Agents Don’t Really Talk. They Exchange Context.

Multi-agent demos make it look as though agents are having a conversation: one delegate asks another for research, a specialist returns an answer, and an orchestrator turns it into action. That image is useful, but incomplete. Agents do not collaborate because they can exchange prose. They collaborate because one part of a system can make the right context available to another part at the right time. The architecture of that handoff determines whether a multi-agent workflow is reliable or merely entertaining. ...

October 13, 2026 · 4 min · 804 words · Hugo Guerrero