Developer builds Relay, a protocol daemon to preserve context across AI coding agent handoffs

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A developer has built an open-source Go daemon called Relay that automates context transfer when AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex hit usage limits. Instead of manually copying summaries between tools, Relay detects quota thresholds in real time, requests a safe pause point, and snapshots the session state to a dedicated git branch. It then generates a cryptographically signed continuation contract containing the original prompt, plan, decisions, and file states, which the next agent verifies before resuming work. The system uses a finite state machine with disk-backed steps, ensuring a crash mid-handoff can be safely recovered on restart. Released under Apache-2.0, Relay also supports account-aware failover, burn-rate forecasting, and multi-agent DAG pipelines, with several features shipped in recent weeks.

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