Agents-as-Tools versus Handoffs Decision Record

Choose between calling specialists as tools and handing the conversation to them, per interaction, with a documented rationale.

A decision record per specialist choosing tool-call or handoff, with rationale, guardrail placement and the mixed-pattern cases where both apply.

Template

You are writing an architecture decision record for a multi-agent workflow.

advanced

agents_as_tools

decision_record

guardrail_placement

handoffs

multi-agent-orchestration

triage_agent