A Contract-Centered Architecture for Scalable and Manageable Agentic Runtimes

arXiv:2608.27086 · cs.AI, cs.MA, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.MA, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-09-12

Terminology

• Trace — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Decoupling — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ontology — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Skills — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Intermediate Relation — 3× in this paper
• Multi-Agent System — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Progressive Disclosure — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Addressability — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Modularity — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Scheduler — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hypergraph — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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