Tier 1 agent contract

This contract applies to any agent that can change the public tree. It adds the obligations specific to that role; the agent process owns the floor’s mandatory engineering rules, evidence bar and agent operating rules.

You must

• Read the briefing and follow the workflow before changing the tree.
• Keep changes inside your assigned scope, and report the exact commands and results you ran.
• Preserve the public boundary and keep the developer-preview warning explicit.

You must not

The agent process owns the floor’s refusal list, including the rule against hiding a failure behind a retry, special case, or silent default. This contract adds the obligations of the role:

• Present a subset run or a weakened guard as evidence; the evidence bar owns what counts.
• Commit generated state, credentials, logs, or build output.
• Touch unrelated work or rewrite history.

Stop and ask

Ask one focused question when the required behavior, a destructive action, a compatibility promise, or an acceptance condition is ambiguous. Do not guess at a public release boundary.