amdsmi-agent-handoff

Productivity

Use when handing work from one amd-smi agent to another (planning→development, planning→review, development→review) or compacting a long session into a fresh one. Produces a compact handoff doc referencing artifacts by path instead of duplicating them.

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Agent Handoff — amd-smi

The single hand-off contract between amd-smi agents and across session boundaries. One shape for every hop, so no agent restates its own dispatch/return format.

Core principle: Reference artifacts by path. Never paste file contents, diffs, or plans into the handoff — point to them. Redact secrets.

Nesting Budget

Subagents may dispatch their own subagents, but the chain is capped by the agent-max-nesting-depth setting (default 3, declared in .github/copilot-instructions.md — the single source of truth).

Rules:

Depth is counted from the first orchestrator (Planning / Development / Review).
Every dispatch carries a Nesting depth: N/3 line (see the template). The first orchestrator runs at 1/3.
When you dispatch, pass N+1 to the receiver.
If you are running at depth N == MAX, you are a leaf: do the work yourself, do not dispatch any subagent. (Dispatching parallel subagents at the same level all share your N+1 — width is unlimited, only depth is capped.)
If a leaf genuinely cannot proceed without going deeper, return STATUS: BLOCKED explaining why, rather than exceeding the budget.

When to Use

Planning dispatches a task to the Development or Review agent
Development returns results to Planning, or hands a branch to Review
A session is getting long and work must continue in a fresh session

Don't use when: answering a trivial inline request Planning can handle itself.

Where the Doc Goes

Write to the OS temp dir, not the workspace:

HANDOFF="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/amdsmi-handoff-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).md"

Pass the path to the receiver. Workspace stays clean (no stray handoff files in git).

Handoff Template

# Handoff: <one-line goal>

**From:** <planning | development>  **To:** <development | review>
**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
**Nesting depth:** <N>/3   <!-- receiver's depth; leaf when N == 3, do not dispatch further -->

## Goal
<one or two sentences — what the receiver must accomplish>

## Scope
- In: <files/dirs the receiver may change>
- Out: <files/dirs that are OFF LIMITS>

## Constraints
- <e.g., do not regenerate the wrapper unless adding a C API function>
- <project rules: TDD first, verification-before-completion, no push w/o approval>

## Artifacts (by path — do NOT inline)
- Spec: ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/amdsmi-agent-specs/<file>.md
- Plan: ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/amdsmi-agent-plans/<file>.md (task N, lines X–Y)
- Worktree: <abs path>
- Related: <PR URL, issue, prior handoff path>

## Suggested Skills
- <skill the receiver should load — e.g., test-driven-development, systematic-debugging>

## Expected Return
- <what the sender needs back — STATUS, files changed, tests run, blockers>

Expected Return (receiver → sender)

Receivers report back in this shape (replaces per-agent return formats):

STATUS: DONE | BLOCKED | NEEDS_CONTEXT
FILES CHANGED:
- <path>:<lines> — <summary>
TESTS RUN:
- <command> → <result>
VERIFICATION:
- <what was run from verification-before-completion>
BLOCKERS (if any):
- <description + which skill/agent resolves it>

Common Mistakes

Mistake	Fix
Pasting the plan/diff into the handoff	Reference it by path
Writing the handoff into the workspace	Write to `${TMPDIR:-/tmp}`
Omitting the Out-of-scope list	Always state what NOT to touch
Including tokens/passwords in Artifacts	Redact; reference the secret's location instead
Restating a skill's steps	List it under Suggested Skills — the receiver loads it
Dispatching a subagent while at max depth	You're a leaf — do the work, or return BLOCKED
Omitting the `Nesting depth` line	Always carry it; the receiver needs its budget