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The Engineering Episode: A Work Contract for Coding Agents

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“Upgrade the authentication library safely” sounds like a task. For an agent, it is a bundle of decisions: which package, what counts as safe, which files may change, whether a lockfile update is allowed, what tests matter, and who may approve a release. If those decisions stay implicit, the agent…

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    The Engineering Episode: A Work Contract for Coding Agents

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