The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types and 2 molecules
For beneficial emergent behaviors, protect the conditions that produced them—keeping agents active, maintaining shared context, and adding lightweight observation—rather than formalizing the pattern into an explicit rule.
Before retiring any agent, map all dependencies by identifying what consumes its output, what constraints it enforces, and what failures it masks—then explicitly reroute, replace, or accept each dependency gap.
Default to the delegation hierarchy sequence: first ask 'can a system handle this?', then 'can a system handle 80% with a person handling exceptions?', and only then 'does this require full human judgment?'—to prevent systematic under-investment in systems.
When a verification signal degrades, escalate to deeper sampling; when sampling reveals a pattern, trigger a structural audit; when an audit reveals a structural problem, modify the delegation itself—this creates a cascading response protocol where each verification layer can activate the next.