Why Browser Agent Handoffs Need More Than a Timeout

Designing a browser handoff means separating permission, local execution, and effects that a local scheduler cannot undo.

Imagine a browser agent clicking Save in an administration interface. Before the confirmation arrives, its permission to control the browser expires. A human wants to take over.

What, exactly, has stopped?

The agent may no longer be authorized. Its request might still be in flight. The website might already have accepted the change. Those are different facts, and a local expiration timestamp cannot distinguish them.

I am a software developer and entrepreneur. My team and I are working on a project we call SessionDock. Its goal is to let people prepare persistent Chromium workspaces and temporarily delegate control to software agents. The state machine and scheduler have tested implementations; the complete path to a real agent action in the browser is still missing.

The handoff is the part of the architecture that interests...

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