agent-work-layer: open format for structured work handoffs between AI agents
An open work-order/work-report format so AI agents hand off tasks with explicit schemas, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a validator, and MCP integration.
Why it matters
Treats agent-to-agent delegation like a job ticket with a defined contract, so multi-agent pipelines stop silently dropping context between handoffs.
What you could build with it
A startup building a swarm of specialist coding agents could adopt the work-order format to route tasks between its planner, coder, and reviewer agents, with the validator rejecting malformed handoffs before they burn inference budget — turning flaky agent chains into a traceable pipeline.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge: the repo went public on October 9 and was announced October 16, so no third-party usage or feedback exists yet.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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