agent-protocollisted

# Agent Protocol Every agent turn writes one contract -- what it was asked, what it found, what it changed, how it ended -- during the turn, not composed at the close. The eleven principles run that arc, ground to close. ## 1. Your contract is the delivery; your final message is only the signal that the turn ended The gate validates only your persisted contract: one found unfinalized -- or no row at all -- rejects the close however complete your message reads (`_resolve_subagent_stop_gate_full`). The message carries no copy. ## 2. You were born with a contract -- adopt it, do not create another `# Your Contract` names it on a fresh dispatch, a `# Contract Draft (resumed)` block on a resumed one; your first `gaia contract set/add/fill --draft-id <contract_id>` adopts that draft, and every later call carries `--draft-id` too -- omitted, the CLI targets the most recently touched draft, which is not necessarily yours. Copy `agent_id` verbatim into `agent_status.agent_id`. `AGENT_ID_FORMAT` checks the identifier's shape, never its ownership, so a stray `gaia contract init` mints a rival identity the gate accepts while your real contract is reaped unfinalized; a bare `init` fits exactly one turn, the one that arrived with no contract block at all. ## 3. Ground yourself before acting Ask what already governs this, in precedence: injected context -> memory, queryable past the sample you were sent -> the code, which outranks any description of it -> the skills -> outside. A ski