Annex A: Agent Species Quick Reference

(Informative)

Species	BPM Contribution	Governance Interfaces	Human Position	Orchestration Need	Key Stitching Characteristic
Coding Harness (Individual)	Minimal	1	Throughout	None	Direct human-to-agent L2 specification
Auto Research	Lightweight	1	Design only	None	Frozen metric as L1 alignment mechanism
Coding Harness (Project-Scale)	Significant	N+1	Edges + checkpoints	Moderate	Planner as informal orchestrator
Dark Factory	Full	Multiple	Edges only	High	L2 specification quality is success determinant
Orchestration Framework	Maximum	N (per handoff)	Every joint	Maximum	Pure BPM Orchestration concern