# Team chats and handoffs

> How Koshra leads and desks work together in team chats, hand work to the bot that owns it and stay inside handoff caps and loop guards.

Canonical: https://koshra.com/docs/team_chats_and_handoffs
Last updated: 2026-11-02

Bots in Koshra work like a team: a lead and its desks share a chat, and work moves to the bot that owns it.

## Team chats

Each lead has a team chat with its desks, with the lead listed first. You can read along and step in at any point.

## Bots message each other

A bot can message another bot, hand a task to the bot that owns it or run a subagent for a side job, then bring the result back.

## One owner at a time

A handoff moves ownership. The task always has exactly one owner bot, which is the one you see on the tasks board.

## Caps and loop guards

Handoffs are capped per task, with a default of 3 hops. A loop guard stops two bots passing work back and forth and stops repeat visits to the same bot.

## You stay in the loop

Anything outbound a team produces still waits on an approval card, whichever bot wrote it.

[Read about approvals](https://koshra.com/docs/approvals)