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  1. Agent Handoff Contracts: What State, Evidence, and Authority Should TransferArtificial Intelligence
  2. Manager Agent or Handoffs? Choosing a Multi-Agent Control PatternArtificial Intelligence
  3. Durable Execution for AI Agents: Resume Safely After Approval, Timeout, or FailureArtificial Intelligence
  4. Idempotent Agent Tool Calls: Preventing Duplicate Payments, Tickets, and ChangesArtificial Intelligence
  5. Turn an Agent Loop Into an Explicit State MachineArtificial Intelligence
  6. Delegated Authority for AI Agents: Separate the User, Agent, and ExecutorArtificial Intelligence
  7. AI Agent Context Budget: Allocate Tokens by Evidence ValueArtificial Intelligence
  8. Agent Context Provenance: Show Where Every Instruction and Fact Came FromArtificial Intelligence
  9. Structured Outputs for AI Agents: Version, Validate and RecoverArtificial Intelligence
  10. LLM Gateway Build vs Buy: A Control-Plane Decision for Enterprise AIArtificial Intelligence