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Agent Topology terms — Fan-out, Tiering, Node Contract, and Authority Boundary — name how a governed graph executes and where human authority sits.
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Fan-out

Fan-out is the execution pattern that spawns independent tasks concurrently across isolated agent sandboxes, so tasks with no dependency on one another run at the same time.

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Tiering

Tiering routes each node in an execution graph to the model tier its task requires, sending administrative and extraction work to small, efficient models and reserving frontier-model reasoning for the judgment nodes that carry real consequence.

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Node Contract

A node contract is the set of six properties every governed execution unit carries whichever model runs inside it: identity, capability, policy, state, authority, and evidence.

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Authority Boundary

The authority boundary is the line, set by the control plane, between what an agent may complete on its own and what waits for a human decision.