Principlev1PR-958
Protect agents with high fan-out (many downstream…
Protect agents with high fan-out (many downstream dependents) as force multipliers, and treat agents with high fan-in (many upstream dependencies) as fragility points requiring redundancy.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Catastrophic failures in complex systems rarely result… (multiple failures align through layers), The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system behavior from structure), and Intentional underutilization (slack) is necessary… (slack absorbs variation). It prescribes treating different graph positions differently based on their structural role—general systems reliability principle.