# Handoff Signal

> Require every agent to end with a structured handoff signal containing completed agent, phase status, artifact location, next agent, execution mode, context used, findings, files, validation status, parallel results, 4D graph, and orchestrator action.

Record: `algorithms:handoff-signal`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-handoff-signal
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/handoff-signal/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Four-Dimensional Agent Graph](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/four-dimensional-agent-graph.md) and before [Orchestrator Action](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/orchestrator-action.md).

## Domain

- [Agent workflow](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/agent-workflow.md)

## Stage

- [act](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/act.md)

## Axis

- [formalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-formalization.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composes

- [Orchestrator Action](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/orchestrator-action.md)

## Composed by

- [Orchestrator Action](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/orchestrator-action.md)
- [Workflow Creation Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/workflow-creation-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Logic](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-logic.md)

## Force

- [Control coordination](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/control-coordination.md)
- [Correctness verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/correctness-verification.md)
- [Event messaging](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/event-messaging.md)
- [Model governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/model-governance.md)
- [Modularity](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/modularity.md)

## Linked from

- [Agent workflow](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-agent-workflow.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)