Contractual Skills: A GovernSpec Design Framework for Enterprise AI Agents 文章

arXiv:2605.22634v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Skills have become a practical packaging mechanism for agent instructions, workflows, scripts, and reference materials. In enterprise settings, however, a skill often needs to express more than task guidance: goals, input boundaries, permissions, human approval points, evidence requirements, output contracts, quality criteria, verification steps, and handoff rules. This paper proposes contractual skills, a GovernSpec-inspired design framework for organizing SKILL.md files as readable task contracts while preserving lightweight skill discovery and progressive loading. The framework clarifies the boundary between contractual skills, GovernSpec YAML contracts, Model Context Protocol (MCP) surfaces, tool adapters, runtime guardrails, tracing, and evaluation systems. We evaluate the framework with three offline empirical studies.