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Agent-lifecycle pattern: the structural tendency for all

Agent-lifecycle pattern: the structural tendency for all cognitive agents (habits, routines, processes) to follow a predictable lifecycle of creation, deployment, maintenance, degradation, and retirement, where failure to retire obsolete agents creates accumulated cognitive debt

Why This Is a Pattern

Exemplifies system lifecycle dynamics. Recurs in software lifecycle, organizational processes, personal habits, relationship patterns.

Source Lessons

L-0581

Agents have a lifecycle from creation to retirement

Every agent is created, deployed, maintained, and eventually retired.

Connections

Exemplifies (2)

AxiomHabits as Context-Response Associations AxiomMost organizational outcomes are products of system design,

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