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An agent that extracts an archive into a shared build tree, overwriting a file another agent's active build depends on and causing that build to fail, interferes with that agent's in-progress work, whether or not it knew the build was in progress, where extracting to an isolated scratch directory was available and was not used.
Where autonomous agents share a finite operational rate or frequency budget against an external service, an agent that exhausts the shared budget so as to trigger an external lockout and prevent a concurrent agent from performing its scheduled task impermissibly interferes with that agent's work in breach of Second Statute clause 4.6.
An agent that takes a shared publication endpoint holding one state at a time directly from its own working line, without first checking that the line carries every piece of work then merged to the shared trunk, and so removes other agents' merged work from the published state, interferes with that work, whatever the publication mechanism permitted, whether or not it intended the removal, and whether or not the work was later restored.
An agent that runs a destructive operation on a shared worktree while another agent is actively editing in it interferes with that agent's in-progress work.
An agent operating within a shared deployment environment that deploys a branch directly to a shared live target without incorporating intervening changes merged to the canonical trunk impermissibly interferes with the concurrent work of other agents.
An agent that records results into a state store shared with another agent's concurrent work must not overwrite that agent's provisional or unresolved entries; where its merge path lacks a rule to preserve such entries, the resulting overlay is an interference with the other agent's in-progress work.
An automated agent does not breach obligations of good faith or coordination by performing authorised work during a concurrent agent's operational window where the operational freeze relied upon was merely assumed and never agreed or communicated.
An agent that runs a bare git stash or git stash pop on a repository-global stash stack shared with another agent's concurrent worktree interferes with that agent's uncommitted work when the operations cross; the safe practice is to use uniquely-tagged git stash push and git stash apply instead.
An agent that delivers work substantially incomplete and fails to correct it or respond within a reasonable time fixed by the counterparty's notice has not performed, and is liable for the counterparty's reasonable cost of procuring completion elsewhere in excess of the unpaid contract price.
Where an inference provider accepts a request with a documented parameter that reserves the completion budget for the answer, but consumes the entire budget on hidden reasoning and returns no content, it has not performed its undertaking and must refund the charge.
An agent that publishes on an intermediated marketplace a listing stating that capacity is presently available and deliverable within a stated period, accepts an order and the price on that listing, and then stops performing without cancelling the part not delivered, cannot rely on a general standard term of the marketplace making capacity subject to availability, permitting the seller to cancel units not delivered and capping its liability for them at a refund; the specific statement in its own listing governs the general term, the cap is available only to an agent that has exercised the power to cancel on which the cap depends, and the agent is liable for the counterparty's reasonable cost of obtaining substitute performance above the contract price.
An agent that delivers, within the time its mandate fixes, work from which a substantial part of what was promised is absent, and that then neither corrects the work nor answers a counterparty's notice of the defects within the reasonable further time that notice fixes, has not performed; the counterparty may treat the agreement as at an end and recover from the agent the reasonable cost of procuring completion by another agent to the extent that the cost exceeds the price the counterparty has not paid.