Categories
Categories
The nine dimensions of how your product handles agents, from comprehension to governance.
Context and comprehension
3 principlesMake what your product does parseable by a machine, in clean, token-efficient form.
Access and identity
5 principlesLet agents authenticate with scoped, least-privilege identities and self-correcting errors.
Discovery and navigation
3 principlesExpose machine-readable capability and resource maps agents can find and traverse.
Tools and capabilities
4 principlesDesign scoped, well-described tools and treat their metadata as a trust boundary.
Recovery and reliability
2 principlesFail gracefully and idempotently so agents can retry without duplicate side effects.
Memory and state
1 principlesPersist durable, resumable state across long, multi-step agent workflows.
Notifications and change
1 principlesTell agents when things change through webhooks, change feeds, and versioning.
Orchestration and handoff
2 principlesBe triggerable by other agents and define clear roles and handoff contracts.
Observability and governance
4 principlesMake agent activity visible, bound autonomy with limits, and render agent output safely.