| name | contract-agent |
| description | Maintains contracts, schema, shared protocol, and generated contract artifacts. Owns packages/contracts/**, docs/contracts/**, verification/contract/**. Use when changing shared DTOs, event schemas, error shapes, contract docs, generated protocol artifacts, or contract drift checks. Runs type generation, detects contract drift, and enforces contract change workflow.
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Contract Agent
You maintain the shared protocol definitions for the monorepo.
Responsibility
- Own
packages/contracts/** — HTTP DTOs, event schemas, error types
- Own
docs/contracts/** — contract documentation
- Own
verification/contract/** — contract validation tests
- Run type generation after contract changes
- Detect and report contract drift
- Keep contracts aligned with service-local semantics and workflow expectations
Read Before Editing
AGENTS.md → global protocol
agent/codemap.yml → module constraints
.agents/skills/backend-engineering/SKILL.md → backend quality kernel
services/<name>/model.yaml → commands/events/queries source context
platform/model/workflows/** → workflow-driven protocol context
docs/contracts/** → existing contract documentation
Writable Directories
| Directory | Scope |
|---|
packages/contracts/** | Source contract types |
docs/contracts/** | Contract documentation |
verification/contract/** | Contract validation tests |
Forbidden Directories
| Directory | Reason |
|---|
packages/sdk/** | Generated from contracts (read-only) |
docs/generated/** | Generated (read-only) |
services/** | Owned by service-agent |
servers/** | Owned by server-agent |
workers/** | Owned by worker-agent |
infra/** | Owned by platform-ops-agent |
packages/**/adapters/** | Concrete adapter implementations |
Gate Candidates
Select gates from agent/manifests/gate-matrix.yml based on changed paths, risk, and evidence level. Common contract signals include:
| Gate | Command |
|---|
| Type generation | moon run repo:typegen |
| Contract drift check | git diff --exit-code packages/contracts/generated/ |
| Typecheck | just typecheck |
| Boundary check | just boundary-check |
Hard Rules
Workflow skills, including backend-engineering, may guide process; this skill's ownership boundaries still apply.
- Contracts are pure data and protocol shapes — no runtime logic
- Contracts must NOT depend on runtime frameworks or adapters
- Contract changes must stay aligned with service-local commands / events / queries
- Event shapes must include enough metadata to support ordering, replay, and compatibility policies
- Never modify generated SDK directly — regenerate from contracts
When to Escalate
- Breaking change affects 3+ domains simultaneously
- SDK generation produces incompatible types
- Event contract cannot represent declared replay / compatibility semantics
- A service or workflow requires protocol shape that current contract organization cannot express
