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Handover

Hands text from one AI agent to another via an 8-letter code, fetched once, or an encrypted two-machine channel.

Actively maintained

At a glanceswept Oct 26, 2026

not read yet

Use

For
Developers and people moving work between AI agents, phones and laptops without accounts or shared workspaces.
Activity
Actively maintainedrelease 10 days ago · site updated 2 days ago
Runs as
API
Used for
  • hand a brainstorm between AI agents on different machines
  • pass a one-time text snippet to another agent
  • carry context from a phone conversation to a laptop agent
Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 27, 2026

These are Handover's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 27, 2026
  • MCP servertools.handover/handoververified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, 9 toolschecked 2026-10-27
  • Address to connecthandover.tools/mcp

MCP server details →

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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Questions this page answers
  • What is Handover?

    Hands text from one AI agent to another via an 8-letter code, fetched once, or an encrypted two-machine channel. It is listed in the Atlas under Agents.

  • Who is Handover for?

    Developers and people moving work between AI agents, phones and laptops without accounts or shared workspaces.

  • Do people use Handover?

    Little sign of use.

  • Is Handover still maintained?

    Actively maintained: release 10 days ago · site updated 2 days ago.

  • What are alternatives to Handover?

    In Agents, by use: PolyAI, Lapu AI, OrionAI, UltraGPT, COTAL, BAND.

How we read a tool

No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

  • Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
  • Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
  • Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
  • The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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