The Agent Contract Problem: When Your Agent Commits to Something It Can't Deliver

The Agent Contract Problem: When Your Agent Commits to Something It Can't Deliver Every autonomous agent will eventually make a promise it can't 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 it's the silent killer of agent reliability. The Agreement Gap When you delegate a task to an agent, you're making an implicit contract. The agent says "I'll handle it" - often with confidence than it should.