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Four Contracts Drew an Enterprise Boundary

A proposed runtime divides responsibility among Skill, Harness, Scaffold and an external data substrate.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-30-018
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Summary

A proposed runtime divides responsibility among Skill, Harness, Scaffold and an external data substrate.

The architecture turns six design conditions into measurable obligations and proposes a crossover experiment for a capability-capacity separation hypothesis. The authors report no implementation, dataset or completed experiment, so this is a falsifiable design proposal rather than measured performance.

Why it matters

A proposed runtime divides responsibility among Skill, Harness, Scaffold and an external data substrate.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A proposed runtime divides responsibility among Skill, Harness, Scaffold and an external data substrate.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-30-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.27086arXiv · primary research

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