Delegation Contract v0.1 defines the minimum context a team records when software work is handed to an agent. It is built for product documentation, issue templates, audit logs, review systems, and research papers comparing coding-agent systems.
Task entry records how work starts. Common entry points include an issue assignment, a chat prompt, a pull request comment, an IDE command, or an external ticket.
Authority records what the agent can do without asking. L2 requires explicit human approval before execution, while L3 allows the proposed action to proceed without it. Some products have conservative defaults and stronger configurable modes, so profiles name both when the distinction matters.