A role contract states responsibilities, allowed tools, inputs, outputs, evidence duties, and escalation. Role-play labels without boundaries do not create dependable specialization.

Agent Roles Are Capability Contracts

A delegation contract states task, scope, evidence, permissions, deadline, and return conditions. The delegator remains responsible for validating the result before consequential use.

Delegation Transfers Work, Not Ultimate Accountability

In this situation—separating a researcher from a release approver—which choice best applies “Agent Roles Are Capability Contracts”?

Centralized, hierarchical, peer, and market-like topologies change communication cost, bottlenecks, fault propagation, and authority. Topology should follow the coordination problem, not a fashionable diagram.

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