Reliable Execution (Value)
- Entity ID:
ent-20260423-b002c1000003 - Type:
decision - Scope:
private - Status:
active
Description
Third motivating value. The agent does what the human actually meant, stays coherent over time, and supports verification before declaring success. Spans single-turn correctness and long-horizon dependability (context-window boundaries, session resume, multi-agent delegation). Grounded in Anthropic's gather-context / take-action / verify-results loop and the harness-design admonition that agents 'confidently praise mediocre work,' motivating separation of generation from evaluation. Motivates context-as-scarce-resource, append-only state, graceful recovery, isolated subagents, and defense in depth.
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Relations
- Reliable Execution (Value) --[motivates]--> Context as Scarce Resource with Progressive Management (Principle)
- Reliable Execution (Value) --[motivates]--> Append-Only Durable State (Principle)
- Reliable Execution (Value) --[motivates]--> Graceful Recovery and Resilience (Principle)
- Reliable Execution (Value) --[motivates]--> Isolated Subagent Boundaries (Principle)