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THE BUILD

SECTION 08

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONproduct1-3yconfidence / medium

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.

  1. S01
    Introducing OpenAI Frontier

    company announcement / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Introducing AgentKit

    company announcement / dated 2025-10-06; updated 2026-06-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  3. S03
    Introducing Claude Tag

    company announcement / published 2026-06-23 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  4. S04
    Concept Paper on Identity and Authority of Software Agents

    government standardization / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  5. S05
    Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl

    analyst release / published 2026-04-28 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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