http://akjamie.github.io/tags/system-design/ Recent content in System-Design on Jamie's Blog Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://akjamie.github.io/post/2026-07-08-handoffs-self-declaration-deep-dive/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://akjamie.github.io/post/2026-07-08-handoffs-self-declaration-deep-dive/ <h1 id="the-self-declaration-principle-why-handoffs-only-works-when-agents-know-their-own-edges">The Self-Declaration Principle: Why Handoffs Only Works When Agents Know Their Own Edges</h1> <p>After reading the LangChain taxonomy post and writing <a href="https://akjamie.github.io/post/2026-06-23-multi-agent-architecture-token-breakdown/">my own breakdown of the call-by-call numbers</a>, I still had a nagging feeling I didn&rsquo;t fully understand Handoffs. Not the mechanics — the handoff tool is simple enough. What I didn&rsquo;t understand was <em>why</em> Handoffs produces the call-count advantages it claims, and <em>under what conditions</em> it actually behaves like the pattern the diagrams promise.</p>