Force subagents to return a validated JSON schema, and fire-and-forget handoff at ~60K tokens

AgentPatterns.ai·medium signal

Hand each subagent a JSON Schema so it must return a validated object — the layer retries on mismatch — and downstream stages get clean queryable data instead of prose to parse, eliminating the most common source of cross-agent context loss. Pair it with the 'fire-and-forget' threshold: around 60K tokens, hand off to a fresh agent rather than burning the remaining budget, with the structured handoff doc serving as the contract in both directions. Pass the real artifacts and a structured acceptance report, not summaries.