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AGENTS

Let the next agent understand what the last one learned.

Agent workflows become fragile when continuity depends on a conversation that only one process can see.

The problem

Task context, assumptions and unresolved questions disappear between runs when the only record is the previous conversation.

What goes in the repository

  • Task context
  • Current state
  • Decisions
  • Findings
  • Assumptions
  • Unresolved questions
  • Durable outputs
context/
├── index.md
├── project.md
├── decisions/
├── findings/
└── handoff.md

Why an open repository helps

A handoff written into the repository can be read by the next agent and by a person checking the work.

How Okide helps

Okide keeps the handoff next to the decisions and findings it refers to, so continuity is a file rather than a hidden session.

Humans and agents, same files

The handoff becomes part of a durable repository rather than ephemeral state between two executions.

OPEN BY DEFAULT

Keep the repository. Change the tools around it.

The next agent should inherit the work, not the private transcript. Okide helps you work with the repository without turning it into an Okide-only format.