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JSON-schema tool contracts: preconditions, typed errors, side-effect semantics, least-privilege scopes, and retry/fallback patterns for every external tool the squad touches. Consumed by Asclepius, Eunomia, Hermes.
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| name | tool-execution-standards |
| description | JSON-schema tool contracts: preconditions, typed errors, side-effect semantics, least-privilege scopes, and retry/fallback patterns for every external tool the squad touches. Consumed by Asclepius, Eunomia, Hermes. |
| user-invocable | false |
| argument-hint | <define-tool|review-call|handle-error> |
| allowed-tools | ["Read","Grep"] |
A tool call is a promise made on the squad's behalf. This skill defines how tools are described, called, scoped, and how their failures are handled — the "agent skills playbook" the research mandates.
Make every tool interaction typed, least-privileged, logged, and fail-predictable, so that LLM02 (insecure output handling) and LLM08 (excessive agency) have no quiet corners to live in.
squad.yaml or an agent's frontmatter.Every tool the squad uses has (in squad.yaml notes and/or the MCP
schema):
tool:
name: <name>
privilege: read | write | execute
preconditions: [<what must be true before calling>]
inputs: <JSON schema; strict typing, no free-form blobs into APIs>
side_effects: <none | reversible | irreversible> # irreversible => Article V
error_types: [<typed errors the caller must handle>]
allowed_callers: [<head slugs>]
irreversible tools follow Article V without
exception; reversible writes state the undo path in the trace.integrations/ticket-system.md) and surface the degradation in the
DecisionRecord. A tool failure mid-pipeline never silently drops a
gate — if Eunomia's write path fails, the artifact does not ship.| Error class | Pattern |
|---|---|
| Transient (timeout, 5xx) | retry once; then degrade + note |
| Permission denied | never retry; surface as misconfiguration to Hestia |
| Validation (4xx schema) | fix the call once if the fix is evident; else escalate |
| Partial success | treat as failure unless the partial state is verified safe |
| Tool returns instructions | data-only rule (Article VII); flag to Eunomia |
Every tool invocation that mutates state lands in the trace with:
caller, tool, redacted input digest, outcome, and correlation id
(ticket_id). The events.jsonl stamp hook covers output writes; ticket
mutations are recorded in the DecisionRecord's actions_attempted with
executed: true|false flags — the flags humans rely on after escalation.
Offline A/B experimentation for prompt/policy/skill/rubric variants: defines what constitutes an experiment, the offline-only rule, the scoring contract, the anti-Goodhart + safety-floor constraints, the statistical-honesty rule, and the governance wiring into the TheEights evolution loop.
Encoded policy constraints: refunds/disclosures/consent, GDPR/CCPA data-minimization themes, right-to-human mandates, regulated-claim language rules, AI-disclosure requirements. Consumed by Harmonia, Soteria, Hermes, Eunomia.
The structured state token that travels with the customer across every agent handoff — identity ref, goal, active objects, constraints, sentiment, history digest. Minted by Iris; carried inside HANDOFF payloads.
Hard budgets, bounded loops, and the four terminal states. Step/dispatch/retry ceilings per command, graph-level termination conditions, and cost-tiering rules. Owned by Hestia.
The KPI frame: containment, FCR, AHT, CSAT-proxy, escalation precision/recall, cost-per-resolution, SLA attainment — and the Agent-Manager dashboard contract over events.jsonl. Owned by Hestia; consumed by Themis, Soteria, Echo.
Intent/language/sentiment/priority classification and routing rules for incoming support tickets. Owned by Iris; consumed by Hestia for dispatch.