Dependency Direction

Dependency direction in agentic-proteins should make ownership more obvious as the package grows, not less. Imports that save a little time but hide who owns meaning are structural debt.

Direction Rules

• depend inward on lower shared packages and outward on the canonical runtime only when the bridge has to preserve an existing surface
• reject new coupling that makes modern packages depend on the legacy bridge for fresh behavior
• treat compatibility shims as temporary structure, not a place to centralize new orchestration

First Proof Check

• imports in packages/agentic-proteins/src/agentic_proteins
• package tests that exercise the seam
• neighboring handbooks when dependency pressure crosses a boundary