FEATURE
Scoped trust
Set which functions and actions can continue automatically and which require a person.
IMPACTAutonomy is a policy decision, not an all-or-nothing switch.
Autonomy / SYSTEM ITEM
Guardrailed Autonomy
Define which work can move automatically, where approvals belong, and how the system records the difference between a safe continuation and a meaningful decision.
WHAT IT TAKES IN
Context becomes useful when the inputs are named.
WHAT IT GIVES BACK
Outputs you can pick up and act on.
FEATURES
What Autonomy changes in the way product work gets done.
This is the operating behavior behind the promise. Each capability is designed to make context, action, and accountability easier to see.
FEATURE
Approval checkpoints
Pause at meaningful gates with the plan, context, proposed action, and decision history in view.
IMPACTThe right person can approve the right action without reviewing everything.
FEATURE
Exception handling
Route conflicts, uncertainty, stale context, and out-of-policy actions back to human review.
IMPACTThe system fails visibly instead of quietly making a risky assumption.
FEATURE
Learning from decisions
Keep run history and human decisions available to improve future boundaries and function quality.
IMPACTTrust can expand based on evidence from actual work.
PRODUCTF PROMISE
Automation should make judgment easier to see.
Trust is scopedApprovals are intentionalExceptions teach the system