Glossary OTP

One Seat, One Owner

A design principle where every responsibility in an agent system is owned by exactly one agent. No overlap, no gaps. The same rule that keeps human org design clean: one clear owner per seat.

Why it matters

Two agents that both think they own a job will either fight or both drop it. One seat, one owner is the fix.

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OTP encodes coordination intelligence so teams of humans and AI agents can run on it.

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