Foundation

Agent operating contract

Closed world for builders

RequiredOperating model
ContractAgent operating contract
Job
Closed world for builders
Requirement
must specify
States / rules
Stop-and-ask; prohibited inventions; table-shaped rows; version-pinned load path
Specified means
This section at top of product spec
Hardest context
Agent mints a hex
Example

Stop if token missing

Counter-example

Essay with constraint in paragraph four

How this lives in Building Blocks

Representation: Operating / governance contract.

Building Blocks should provide the operating rule, review path, and source-of-truth guidance. A consuming product still records its product-specific answer and does not treat central governance as operational unless it actually exists.

Do not specify the easy case only.

The source checklist’s hardest-context test is part of what “specified” means: Agent mints a hex.

On-spec signal

Stop if token missing

Failure signal

Essay with constraint in paragraph four

Catalog connection

The product-local Catalog should show this row’s actual state for that product using the Catalog contract. Building Blocks documentation can define the baseline, but it does not make a product’s row Specified, Designed, or In code by itself.

See the Catalog contract →