Context Resets and Structured Handoffs

At a hospital shift change, the nurse going off duty does not repeat the past 12 hours. The nurse writes down each patient's state, what has been tried, what is due next, and what must not be missed. The next nurse reads that record, checks the patient, and continues the care.

An agent can do the same: stop, write a record of its state, and give it to a new session with an empty window. When is that better than summarizing the old window, what must the record contain, and how do you find out whether your model needs this at all?