ContractAgent operating contract
- Job
- Closed world for builders
- Requirement
- must specify
- States / rules
- Stop-and-ask; prohibited inventions; table-shaped rows; version-pinned load path
- Specified means
- This section at top of product spec
- Hardest context
- Agent mints a hex
Example
Stop if token missing
Counter-example
Essay with constraint in paragraph four
How this lives in Building Blocks
Representation: Operating / governance contract.
Building Blocks should provide the operating rule, review path, and source-of-truth guidance. A consuming product still records its product-specific answer and does not treat central governance as operational unless it actually exists.
Do not specify the easy case only.
The source checklist’s hardest-context test is part of what “specified” means: Agent mints a hex.
On-spec signal
Stop if token missing
Failure signal
Essay with constraint in paragraph four
Catalog connection
The product-local Catalog should show this row’s actual state for that product using the Catalog contract. Building Blocks documentation can define the baseline, but it does not make a product’s row Specified, Designed, or In code by itself.