CONTRACT-Style-Comments: Interface for the Agentic Epoch

Jeffrey Sabarese ( @ajaxstardust ) Published in coordination with Large Language Model contributors (Claude Sonnet/Haiku) Abstract: As software development transitions into an "agentic" workflow, traditional documentation fails to provide the necessary constraints for stateless AI coding agents. The contract-style-comments (CSC) methodology proposes a rigorous, comment-based formalization of preconditions, postconditions, and invariants. This ensures architectural integrity is maintained across