Perspective · 01
Design the risk envelope before the agent
Autonomy should be a bounded operating condition, not a personality trait.Start by naming what the system may observe, recommend, change, and never touch. Add confidence thresholds, escalation triggers, spend limits, and rollback paths before choosing orchestration patterns. The result is an agent whose authority can be inspected—and narrowed—without relying on good intentions.
Apply the idea
Use this principle as a review question: where is the relevant evidence visible, what remains governed by explicit rules, and who has the authority to challenge or stop the system?