Agency without accountability is only automation with better marketing.

Capability, not custody.

Give an agent the smallest typed capability needed for the task. Keep credentials, policy and durable authority outside its custody.

Plans before mutations.

Intent should become a legible plan before it becomes an external effect. People and peer agents need a stable object they can question, approve or reject.

Evidence, not declarations.

A successful tool call is not proof of a successful outcome. Verification and structured evidence belong inside the execution lifecycle.

Observable coordination.

Agent sessions need shared rooms, durable questions, visible ownership and explicit handoffs—the social guarantees that made open-source communities effective.

We are not trying to remove people from software. We are designing a better public contract between people, agents and the systems they change.