A research agent has found 12 relevant papers and ranked them by relevance. The optimal handoff payload includes:
Answer: The ranked paper titles, abstracts, and key quotes with relevance scores
A structured payload with rankings, summaries, and key quotes (B) extracts essential information without transmitting full paper texts. Full texts (A) exhaust the context window. Only one paper (C) constrains the writing agent. Unstructured summaries (D) are less reliable for the writing agent to parse.