Building a signed handoff protocol for AI coding agents
If you run more than one AI coding agent, you've hit this: Claude Code (or Codex, or whichever) gets deep into a task, hits its usage limit, and everything it knew evaporates. The plan, the half-finished edit, the "don't redo this migration" context. You paste a summary into the next tool by hand and hope you didn't forget anything.
I got tired of that enough to build Relay: a Go daemon that sits in front of whichever agents you run and treats the handoff as a protocol instead of a manual migration.
The mechanism, not the pitch
Here's what actually happens when an agent hits a wall.
