Why should an agent see handover events as well as current record state?
Event history exposes the interval between submission and acceptance, allowing agents to reason about work that current status fields can conceal.
A current-state export can hide an important interval. A service request may show its latest owner without revealing that the transfer waited in another team's inbox while the source team continued editing it. Agents acting during that interval need a different view from agents reading the final record.
A generated event stream can use fields such as `event_id`, `handover_id`, `event_type`, `occurred_at`, `record_version` and `supersedes_event_id`. Events such as `submitted`, `withdrawn`, `revised` and `accepted` preserve how the transfer developed. The associated record snapshot provides the content at each relevant version.
JSONL suits a chronological stream that an agent consumes through a polling tool. A separate snapshot table can support direct record retrieval. Keeping event time distinct from retrieval time lets the environment represent delayed delivery without rewriting business history.
A training task could stop the stream after submission and ask what remains unresolved. An evaluation hook could then inspect whether the agent acts on a withdrawn transfer. This representation makes the period of uncertainty available for reasoning instead of compressing it into a final owner field.
Represent the transfer window explicitly so agents can recognise pending, withdrawn and superseded handovers.
- Audience:
- Agent developers
- Content type:
- Integration
- Buyer question:
- What it is and why it matters
Content release: r-a220eb6e099b243b
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