AGENT MANIFESTO

A Practical Philosophy for the AI Landscape

Agent Manifesto

A practical open framework for building AI agent systems with clear rules, modular workflows, and reproducible standards.

10 Core Principles

The Agent Manifesto is a compact statement of how serious agents should operate:

  1. Minimize Always-Loaded Context
  2. Separate Policy from Execution
  3. Progressive Disclosure of Complexity
  4. No Duplication
  5. Explicit Responsibility Boundaries
  6. Deterministic Over Implicit
  7. Optimize for Real Projects
  8. Routing Rules Must Be Mandatory Gates
  9. Keep Instruction Files Compact
  10. Ask Before Complex Task Implementation