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# Agent Planning System Review Produce an **Agent Planning and Control Contract** for a reusable autonomous system. Read [references/planning-and-control-methods.md](references/planning-and-control-methods.md) before selecting a planning family. ## Method 1. Define the environment: objective, observable state, available actions, hard constraints, uncertainty, reversibility, effect authority, and cost of delay or failure. 2. Separate goal selection, plan construction, action selection, execution, observation, and replanning. Name the owner of each transition. 3. Choose the least complex planning family that satisfies the environment: reactive interleaving, plan-and-execute, hierarchical decomposition, partial-order planning, deliberative intention management, or a hybrid. 4. Define plan state explicitly: goals, preconditions, effects, dependencies, causal links, invariants, resource bounds, commitments, and uncertainty. 5. Bind every action to an observation and outcome check. Never infer success merely because an action or tool call returned. 6. Specify invalidation and replan triggers: changed world state, failed precondition, blocked dependency, contradictory observation, budget breach, new higher-value work, or irreversible-effect boundary. 7. Bound search and deliberation by value of information, time, compute, branching, and risk. Define when to act, replan, escalate, degrade, or stop. 8. Test with nominal traces, stale-plan races, partia