The canonical coordinate for agents that carry forward context, permissions, and state across handoffs.
Inheritance in agent systems — the mechanism by which an agent acquires the capabilities, scope, and constraints of its principal or predecessor.
Coordinated sets this position belongs to — the coverage it extends. Counts are the live cluster size in the graph.
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Architectural context
Agent · Cross-Vertical · 3 compound moats. Architectural surface: Agent, Infrastructure. Cross-cutting: Inheritance.
Layer position: Cross-cutting
Why this is canonical
'Inheritance' names a live architectural challenge in multi-agent systems: how authority, memory, and permissions propagate from one agent or role to the next. As agentic pipelines grow in depth, the inheritance problem becomes as central as the orchestration problem.
Where it fits
A few directions this coordinate opens —
Illustrative, not exhaustive — held as a transferable canonical position, open to the buyer's own use.