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Behavioral Contracts — Designing AI Agent Policies as Design Artifacts

ArticlesAdded Mar 2026

Emerging design practice: formal 'behavioral contracts' define how AI agents decide, handle failures, and communicate. These policy documents live alongside wireframes and specs — a new design artifact for the agentic era. Marks the beginning of a discipline where designers define agent constraints, not just visual flows.

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