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Design customer support with handoff from virtual agent to human

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GoogleSystem designLast asked Jul 2026

Users chat with a virtual agent and can be escalated to a human support agent. Design the system with the focus on the handoff: how the conversation's context goes with it, who owns the conversation at each moment, and how messages keep arriving in order, with none lost or doubled, while the switch happens.

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