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Agent charter
AIA short document that defines an AI agent's job, inputs, outputs, and failure modes before it is built. Every agent on this site ships with one.
Full definition
An agent charter is the contract a multi-agent system signs before the first tool call. It names the agent's role, the JSON-schema inputs it accepts, the JSON-schema outputs it must return, the eval harness that grades it, and a short list of failure modes the agent must explicitly refuse or escalate. Charter-first design keeps agents from drifting into the space where they 'look productive but aren't measurable.' On this site, every agent in the orchestrator-worker platform has a published charter so the system's behaviour is auditable rather than emergent.
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