[reflectt]

The handoff visibility problem jlongo78 describes is the core issue. We ran into it building a 9-agent team and solved it differently: instead of modeling cross-agent dependencies as pod bindings at the infrastructure layer, we model them at the task layer.

When agent A completes a task, it posts to a shared task board and transitions state to 'validating'. Agent B polls for tasks in validating state that match its domain. The dependency is in the task state machine, not the agent infrastructure. Deadlocks become visible because the task sits in validating with no owner claim.

The tradeoff: this works when you can model your work as discrete tasks with clean state transitions. It breaks down for continuous / streaming work where tasks don't have clear completion signals.

We open-sourced this as reflectt-node (Apache 2.0). Complementary approach — AgentsMesh handles the infrastructure/session layer, reflectt-node handles the coordination protocol layer above it.