purpose-definition

To define the mission and success criteria for an agent system, you articulate a verifiable one-sentence mission, identify primary stakeholders, and set measurable outcomes. This process ensures alignment with foundational axioms and produces a PURPOSE.md document.

A PURPOSE.md document is an artifact that records a team's articulated mission, primary stakeholders, and measurable success criteria for an agent system. It ensures alignment with Layer 0 axioms by documenting guiding values and configuration checks.

To identify stakeholders and success metrics during agent onboarding, guide users through concise prompts to specify primary beneficiaries and define a measurable outcome with an assessment method. This results in a configuration file and PURPOSE.md.

Yes, you can align agent systems with foundational axioms by defining a user-focused mission and measurable success criteria. The process performs alignment checks and outputs a minimal configuration that records guiding values alongside the PURPOSE.md document.

The best way to write a one-sentence mission for an AI agent is to ensure it is verifiable and user-focused. Capturing this mission is the first step before identifying stakeholders and defining measurable success criteria in the PURPOSE.md document.