Give the other agent a job
A sales agent may need operations to check stock before preparing a reply. The handoff should name the question, the records needed, the deadline and the expected result.
Passing a task does not mean copying the caller’s whole private context. Share the minimum authorized information needed for the job.
Collaboration and protocol are different
Agents within thinqOS can delegate work. Agent-to-Agent, or A2A, provides an interface for communicating across separately operated agent systems. In thinqOS, this interface supports inbound and outbound tasks between connected agent systems. Connections must be configured and authorized.
The protocol is the doorway. Discovery, authentication and task state do not establish the quality of the agent behind it or permission to share a particular record.
Check the returned work
Ask whether the agent produced the expected artifact, used the permitted sources and disclosed any missing information. A message marked completed can still contain an error or an unsupported assertion.
If a task needs to pause for more information, verify that the particular integration supports that behavior. Do not assume a follow-up message and resuming the same interrupted execution are equivalent.
Keep accountability with the workflow
The original owner still needs to know which work was delegated and what was verified. Delegation is useful when it brings a focused capability or separates responsibilities. It adds coordination overhead when a direct tool call would do.