What is responsibility handoff?

Responsibility handoff is a concept in personal epistemology: When retiring an agent ensure its responsibilities transfer to a new agent or are consciously dropped.

Example: You have a morning planning agent — a routine that reviews your calendar, identifies top priorities, and sets your focus for the day. When a job change makes this specific routine obsolete, you don't just stop doing it. You either build a successor agent tuned to the new role's rhythms or you explicitly decide that some responsibilities (like calendar review) transfer to a weekly planning agent while others (like daily priority-setting) are consciously dropped because the new role handles prioritization differently. What you never do is let the routine die silently and discover three weeks later that you haven't set a deliberate priority since.

This concept is part of Phase 30 (Agent Lifecycle) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for agent lifecycle.