pathway_limits

Scope: Hard limits for agent interactions.
Audience: Contributors and reviewers.
Guarantees: Limits are enforced at runtime.
Non-Goals: Adaptive scaling.
Why: This doc exists to record its single responsibility for review.

Overview

This doc defines pathway interaction limits.
Architecture components are defined in Architecture.
Read Docs Style for structure.

Contracts

Incoming signals per tick are capped.
Outgoing signals per tick are capped.
Dependency depth is capped.

Invariants

Limits apply to every pathway.
Limit violations stop execution.
Limits are recorded in tests.

Failure Modes

Limit violations raise errors.
Silent overflow is rejected.
Cycles are blocked by contract rules.

Extension Points

Limit changes update Execution Cost.
Contract changes update Architecture.
Documentation updates follow Triage.

Exit Criteria

This doc becomes obsolete when limits are generated.
The replacement is Architecture.
Obsolete docs are removed.

Code refs: src/agentic_proteins/biology/pathway.py.