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Protect agents with high fan-out (many downstream
Protect agents with high fan-out (many downstream dependents) as force multipliers, and treat agents with high fan-in (many upstream dependencies) as fragility points requiring redundancy.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Catastrophic failures in complex systems rarely result from (multiple failures align through layers), The behavior of a system arises from its structure, not from (system behavior from structure), and Intentional underutilization (slack) is necessary for (slack absorbs variation). It prescribes treating different graph positions differently based on their structural role—general systems reliability principle.