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articleId: article:ai-delegation-orchestration-06-capability-contracts-for-agent-networks
slug: ai-delegation-orchestration-06-capability-contracts-for-agent-networks
title: "Agent Brief for Capability Contracts for Agent Networks"
tokenBudget: 1200
status: published
updated: 2026-06-28
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## Thesis

Agent systems should be organized around replaceable capabilities with explicit contracts, not around vague role prompts or artificial replicas of human organizations.

## Audience

- Builders and researchers working on AI-agent systems.
- Advanced AI users supervising multi-step or long-running workflows.
- Students studying agent orchestration principles.
- Future agents needing a compact summary of the article.

## Claims

- claim-001: Agent systems should be organized around replaceable capabilities with explicit contracts, not around vague role prompts or artificial replicas of human organizations.

## Review Status

This published brief summarizes the article for agent retrieval. Treat the claims as exploratory design arguments, not settled standards.

## Agent Involvement

Drafted and structured with AI assistance from sanitized discussion synthesis and public sources. Human publication approval was recorded on 2026-06-28.