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Python: Bug: Multimodal content is dropped during agent handoff in orchestrator #7822

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Bug Description

In the current implementation of clean_conversation_for_handoff, the framework filters the conversation history by exclusively preserving text content types and discarding all other content.

While this effectively removes tool-control messages prior to routing, it inadvertently causes multi-modal content (such as uri or data attachments representing images, audio, or PDFs) to be silently dropped during agent handoffs. As a result, the receiving agent is provided with the text context but loses access to any associated multi-modal files from previous interactions.

Impact

This behavior affects multi-modal workflows within SequentialBuilder and HandoffAgentExecutor pipelines. Specifically, it prevents Vision models from accessing images uploaded in prior steps, as the multi-modal context is stripped out during the handoff process.

Proposed Solution

To resolve this, I propose updating the strict text check to a comprehensive allowlist. This approach will safely preserve necessary semantic content (such as text, data, uri, and hosted_file) while continuing to reliably filter out runtime and control payloads (such as function_call, usage, and error).

I have prepared a Pull Request that addresses this issue, complete with updated test coverage in test_handoff.py. Thank you for your time and review!

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