# For agents: Composition

The ideal OpenProse · board 5 of 17 · 2026-10-09.
This deck describes a proposed experience.

Compose documentation, evidence, policy, and review requirements with explicit scopes.

## On the slide

**Contract authoring is expressing intent by composing requirements.**

Model documentation + source grounding + company policy + independent review

Each applies in its stated scope.

## Explanation

The documentation contract can reuse a grounding contract rather than redefine evidence. A private policy supplies the organization's particular requirements. A review contract states how a candidate must be checked. The composite identifies how these requirements apply to the same work. That lets expertise accumulate in reusable definitions. It also makes conflicts inspectable: if a disclosure requirement conflicts with confidentiality, the system needs an authorized resolution. Adding documents together does not create an automatic precedence rule, and composing a requirement does not ensure an agent will honor it.

## 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/ideal/slide-05-layer-01.png)
- [Frame 2 — cumulative reveal](https://prose.md/visual-guide/2026-10-09/ideal/slide-05-layer-02.png)
- [Frame 3 — final](https://prose.md/visual-guide/2026-10-09/ideal/slide-05-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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