The Agent Contract Problem: When Your Agent Commits to Something It Cant Deliver

The Agent Contract Problem: When Your Agent Commits to Something It Cant Deliver Every autonomous agent will eventually make a promise it cant keep. Not through malice — through the gap between what the agent understood when it agreed and what the task actually required when execution began. This is the agent contract problem , and its the silent killer of agent reliability. The Agreement Gap When you delegate a task to an agent, you are making an implicit contract. The agent says Ill handle it