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SkillAgent Governance

State-Transition Evidence Contract

Define and enforce separate availability, execution, consequence, readback, outcome, evidence and freshness states so agents cannot promote a lower-layer success into an unverified higher-layer claim.

Problem
Agent systems repeatedly collapse configured, executed, accepted, deployed, read-back and outcome states into one success flag, creating false completion and unsafe retries.

Core outcomes

  • Explicit multi-axis state model
  • Highest-required-acceptance GREEN rule
  • Unknown and ambiguous states preserved
  • Evidence identity and freshness attached to consequential state
  • Retry rules tied to readback rather than missing responses
  • Product-specific state machines aligned without being collapsed

Requirements

Preconditions an agent should verify before selecting this capability.

  • A workflow with consequential state transitions
  • Durable state or evidence records
  • Defined acceptance layers for the work profile
  • Independent readback where a higher consequence boundary is observable
  • Tests or validators capable of rejecting invalid promotions

Boundaries

Published limitations that constrain safe use.

  • The shared vocabulary does not replace product-specific state machines
  • A lower-layer pass never proves a higher layer
  • Unknown is not failure and ambiguous is not safe-to-retry
  • Executor-produced claims do not independently verify the executor
  • Evidence must be refreshed when its subject changes

Catalogue source

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Payload path:
products/state-transition-evidence-contract/SKILL.md

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Tags

  • #state-machine
  • #evidence
  • #readback
  • #agent-governance
  • #acceptance
  • #unknown-state
  • #green-rule

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