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title: "Trigger contract · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Trigger contract: the description's second job: it tells the model when this fires. (baseline skill)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/trigger-contract"
last-updated: "2026-09-23"
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3. Trigger contract

Glossary definition

# Trigger contract

Atlas key

trigger-contract

Catalog order

50

Used in

4 sections

Catalog revision · e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61

the description's second job: it tells the model *when this fires*. ([baseline skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill))

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## Used in

- [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation#forces) Forces · 1 mention
- [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context#application-what-earns-a-rung-and-what-fronts-it) Application · 1 mention
- [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations#model-and-claims) Model and claims · 1 mention
- [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload#structure) Structure · 1 mention