AGENTIC ENGINEERING / INTEGRATION
Give agents a bounded execution context.
BOUND can expose engineering context to an agent without turning the agent into the owner of the boundary.
Integration model
- Human-defined intent: establish the mission and acceptance conditions.
- Boundary: identify the responsibility and permitted change surface.
- Contracts: provide the interfaces and invariants the agent must preserve.
- Execution: give the agent only the tools, files, environments, and credentials required for that task.
- Verification: require evidence before the result is accepted or promoted.
Proposed agent context
mission owning_boundary allowed_files allowed_tools dependencies contracts constraints forbidden_assumptions acceptance verification_requirements
This is a conceptual field set, not a stable agent protocol. A future implementation can serialize it using the formal BOUND artifacts rather than inventing a separate agent-specific authority model.
Tool interaction
Tools should be exposed as capabilities inside the bounded context. The ability to call a tool is not itself permission to change every resource reachable through that tool.
Human accountability
The agent may implement, inspect, test, or propose changes. Ownership of intent, trade-offs, boundary changes, and acceptance remains explicitly assigned to the responsible human or governing process.
Design rule: BOUND should describe what an agent is allowed to change and how the result is verified before it describes which agent framework or protocol is used.