Where does pre-task context live for agents? Devs debate workflows beyond handoff
shishen2026 · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit discussion on a step before agent handoff that most frameworks ignore: the pile of context behind a task — pages read, saved images, local files, decisions from earlier chats, half-finished ideas — exists before the first agent is involved and must survive after it ends.
The author finds himself constantly rebuilding this context: re-finding tabs, dragging files together, copying old messages. He asks how people actually handle it: project folder, Notion, second brain, repo, or reconstructing from scratch each new chat? He's building on this problem himself but is more interested in workflows people have actually stuck with.
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