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Delegation & Permissions
Practical, evidence-led AI workflows with clear permission boundaries and observable acceptance checks.
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Give your evidence an expiry date before an agent acts on it
Work prepared on Monday and executed on Thursday runs on Monday’s facts. A guard that re-checks the evidence before the action, and demotes rather than edits when the…
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What a completion receipt needs before it can catch a false claim
An agent’s summary is not evidence. Four fields turn a log line into a receipt that can be checked without the agent’s cooperation, and a fifth catches the…
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Exit code 0 from an agent that did nothing
Three permission modes, one task, identical exit status. Two of the three ended the turn after stating intent and never ran anything, and the calling script had no…
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My read-only agent wrote to disk, and the sandbox flag was set
A delegated agent run with a read-only sandbox created a file anyway. The sandbox was set correctly; a separate permission flag on the same command line silently outranked…
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How Much Work Can You Delegate to AI? Five Levels from Answer to Finished Work
A five-level decision framework for choosing how much of a real task AI should answer, transform, produce, act on, or repeat.