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Identify and eliminate shared dependencies across multiple…

Identify and eliminate shared dependencies across multiple agents during portfolio review, as correlated failure points create systemic fragility that individual agent optimization cannot address.

Why This Is a Principle

This derives from Catastrophic failures in complex systems rarely result… (catastrophic failures come from multiple failures aligning) and The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system behavior arises from structure). It prescribes identifying and breaking shared dependencies. Strong principle because it's clearly actionable (hunt for correlations), derived from failure mode axioms, and general across systems.