Principlev1PR-1115
Build cognitive agents with multiple independent trigger…
Build cognitive agents with multiple independent trigger mechanisms and resources rather than single points of dependency, as redundancy enables the system to survive environmental disruption that would otherwise cause cascading failure.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Catastrophic failures in complex systems rarely result… (catastrophic failures result from alignment of multiple failures through defensive layers) and Intentional underutilization (slack) is necessary… (intentional underutilization/slack is necessary to absorb variation). It prescribes building redundancy into agent design. It's actionable (build multiple triggers/pathways), general (applies to any agent), and derived from axioms about system failure modes.