# For agents: Your first contract

OpenProse today · board 17 of 17 · 2026-10-09.
This deck records dated experimental evidence, not general reliability.

Begin with one bounded job, inspect its result, then test whether reuse helps a second job.

## On the slide

**Choose one useful, bounded job.**

Read its selected agreement.

Supply inputs, capabilities, and an output location.

Inspect the result and its evidence.

Start at `pkg.prose.md/kernel.md`.

## Explanation

Use a capable agent with ordinary reading and working tools. Begin with the published brief or a small domain contract, preserve the selected version, and provide the inputs and scope it requires. Review the result before depending on it. Then make one deliberate change or reuse a component in a second job: that is where the library's practical value should become visible. The immediate invitation is to try useful work and contribute precise evidence of what succeeds or fails. Managed operation and specialist expertise remain promising business opportunities; whether people return and pay still needs real customer evidence.

## Whiteboard sequence

Open only the frames useful to the question. Later frames add to the same board;
the final frame contains the complete drawing.

- [Frame 1 — black core](https://prose.md/visual-guide/2026-10-09/current/slide-17-layer-01.png)
- [Frame 2 — cumulative reveal](https://prose.md/visual-guide/2026-10-09/current/slide-17-layer-02.png)
- [Frame 3 — final](https://prose.md/visual-guide/2026-10-09/current/slide-17-layer-03.png)

These explanations add no normative requirements. Read the
[selected kernel 0.3.0-rc.3](https://pkg.prose.md/releases/0.3.0-rc.3/core/README.md) for language rules.

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