THE BUILD
SECTION 08
ISSUE 001
Agent-to-Agent Contract Tests
Projection: Collaborating agents will need executable interface agreements for inputs, outputs, authority, timeouts, and failure containment. Tooling and evaluation evidence makes coordination plausible but says nothing about contractual reliability. The thesis clears when multi-agent deployments pass such tests and contain a broken collaborator without cascading failure.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The cited captures document agent tooling, permissions, memory, and evaluation. They do not establish Agent-to-Agent Contract Tests as a deployed mechanism. The adoption test is whether multi-agent systems pass executable contract tests and contain collaborator failures.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Introducing OpenAI Frontier
company announcement / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Introducing AgentKit
company announcement / dated 2025-10-06; updated 2026-06-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Introducing Claude Tag
company announcement / published 2026-06-23 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S04Concept Paper on Identity and Authority of Software Agents
government standardization / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S05Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl
analyst release / published 2026-04-28 / retrieved 2026-07-09