"How to Stop AI Agent Skills, Hooks, and Cron Jobs from Silently Conflicting Over Where They Run and What Data They Trust"

Short summary

Distributed agent systems fail silently when components don't declare assumptions about where they run and which facts they trust. Two production leaks traced back to missing declarations—stale config and locality mismatches. Solution: require every component to declare four invariants (Locality, Source-of-truth, Cross-ref, Trigger-measurability) before shipping.

• •Undeclared assumptions about component locality and data sources cause silent runtime conflicts
• •Real examples: stale source-of-truth in config reader, local paths referenced in remote cron jobs
• •Framework: declare four invariants upfront to catch conflicts at design time, not in production

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