What is an operating contract for an always-on AI agent?
It is a durable description of the agent’s objective, information sources, permitted actions, notification policy, owner and stop conditions. It should distinguish reporting from writing and define what evidence counts as completion. This makes recurring work inspectable even after the original conversation is no longer fresh.
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