AI RESEARCH
ECM Contracts: Contract-Aware, Versioned, and Governable Capability Interfaces for Embodied Agents
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.13097v1 Announce Type: cross Embodied agents increasingly rely on modular capabilities that can be installed, upgraded, composed, and governed at runtime. Prior work has We present ECM Contracts, a contract-based interface model for embodied capability modules. Unlike conventional software interfaces that specify only input and output types, ECM Contracts encode six dimensions essential for embodied execution: functional signature, behavioral assumptions, resource requirements, permission boundaries, recovery semantics, and version compatibility.