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title: "Coverage · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Coverage: what fraction of a task's actual intent the written clauses at a seam capture; orthogonal to per-clause checkability (the determinism ladder)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/coverage"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
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Glossary definition

# Coverage

Atlas key

coverage

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12

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what fraction of a task's *actual intent* the written clauses at a seam capture; orthogonal to per-clause checkability (the determinism ladder). Raising it is contract-side craft; clause-writing that stops paying before intent is captured is *coverage exhaustion*. ([verification asymmetry](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/verification-asymmetry), [the contract](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/contract-documentation))

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## Used in

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