diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
index 6548623b5..012e94c13 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml
@@ -78,9 +78,14 @@ jobs:
             pytest \
             pytest-check-links \
             GitPython \
-            "git+https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/langchain-ai/mkdocs-material-insiders.git" \
             "git+https://github.com/benjamincburns/markdown-exec.git@cc0d39d737e5ffd4b83d23cd8729d7ea16e363c8"
 
+          # we run this installation only for internal PRs
+          # as GITHUB_TOKEN is not available for PRs from outside contributors
+          if [ -n "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" ]; then
+            poetry run pip install "git+https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/langchain-ai/mkdocs-material-insiders.git"
+          fi
+
           poetry run jupyter kernelspec list
           poetry run python3 -m ipykernel install --user --name=python3
           npm install -g tslab
diff --git a/docs/docs/how-tos/agent-handoffs.ipynb b/docs/docs/how-tos/agent-handoffs.ipynb
index 4a5e5f870..039dc6ec0 100644
--- a/docs/docs/how-tos/agent-handoffs.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/how-tos/agent-handoffs.ipynb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     "\n",
     "This guide shows how you can:\n",
     "\n",
-    "- implement handoffs using `Command`: agent node makes some decision (usually LLM-based), and explicitly returns a handoff via `Command`. These are useful when you need fine-grained control over how an agent routes to another agent. It could be well suited for implementing a supervisor agent in a supervisor architecture.\n",
+    "- implement handoffs using `Command`: agent node makes a decision on who to hand off to (usually LLM-based), and explicitly returns a handoff via `Command`. These are useful when you need fine-grained control over how an agent routes to another agent. It could be well suited for implementing a supervisor agent in a supervisor architecture.\n",
     "- implement handoffs using tools: a tool-calling agent has access to tools that can return a handoff via `Command`. The tool-executing node in the agent recognizes `Command` objects returned by the tools and routes accordingly. Handoff tool a general-purpose primitive that is useful in any multi-agent systems that contain tool-calling agents."
    ]
   },