Abstract: The contract-style-comments (CSC) methodology has matured from a function-level annotation practice into a deployable governance scaffold. The official CSC GitHub Template encodes the Agentic Trivium — CONTRACT.md, WHY.md, and QUICKSTART.md — as the structural foundation of every new project, providing a deterministic cold-start protocol for stateless AI agents. This guide defines the template's architecture and presents a formal implementation protocol for human developers and AI agents alike.

Jeffrey Sabarese ( @ajaxstardust )

Part VI of the contract-style-comments Series

The CONTRACT‑Style‑Comments (CSC) methodology began as a way to prevent architectural drift — first for me, then for the AI agents I work with.…