Every term, defined once.

1. The person who answers for a class of work, named by job title. They approve, narrow, hold or reject each recommendation.

Self never takes this role.

See also recommendation, ceiling, delegation review

1. What the agent did on one piece of work, including recorded tool calls. The first of the three signals Self records.

See also human judgment, business outcome, evidence

1. 1What a model should be allowed to do.
2. 2Set by your organization for each class of work. The owner may expand or narrow it as evidence and conditions change.

See also intelligence, competence, effective authority, withdraw

1. What followed the action, including later failures or reversals. The third signal Self records.

See also agent action, human judgment, correction

1. The most delegated handling your organization allows for a class of work. Self never recommends past it.

See also policy, accountable owner, Do Not Delegate

1. A task that recurs under stated conditions. Self reads evidence and recommends handling per class, never per agent.

See also scope, conditions, reading

1. 1What a model has demonstrated.
2. 2Read per class of work and its conditions, counting any help a person gave.

See also intelligence, authority, record

1. What a result depends on: the task, the tools available, the policy in force and the cases the agent met.

See also class of work, configuration, Insufficient Evidence

1. The model, prompt and tools an agent runs with. A change to any one of them makes a new configuration.

See also reading, regression, fresh case

1. A change a person made to an agent’s work, kept with the work it changed.

See also human judgment, requirement

1. The owner weighs a recommendation against policy and decides whether the scope of a class of work changes.

See also recommendation, accountable owner, policy

Defined with the handling terms

1. The scope approved by your accountable owner and enforced by your systems today.

See also recommendation, policy, authority

1. Agent actions, human judgments and business outcomes tied to the same piece of work, each traceable to the system it came from.

See also agent action, human judgment, business outcome

1. A new evaluation case that preserves a requirement while changing its details.

See also requirement, correction, configuration

1. What people approved, corrected, rejected or escalated. The second signal Self records.

It shows which work the agent finished alone and which a person helped finish.

See also correction, Review, agent action

Defined with the handling terms

1. What a model can do. It widens what an organization can attempt.

See also competence, authority

Defined with the handling terms

1. Your organization’s rules for a class of work: the evidence it requires, its review and escalation rules, and its ceiling.

See also ceiling, effective authority, accountable owner

1. Self’s assessment of one class of work under one configuration. A new configuration starts a new reading.

See also configuration, record, recommendation

1. 1Self’s proposal for how much review a class of work needs next: Own, Sample, Review or Do Not Delegate.
2. 2It moves in either direction. New evidence, a new configuration, a policy change or a bad outcome reopens it.

See also delegation review, effective authority, Insufficient Evidence

1. Everything Self keeps for one class of work, in five layers: evidence, demonstrated competence, Self’s recommendation, your policy and effective authority.

See also evidence, recommendation, effective authority

1. A requirement that an earlier configuration met and a new one fails.

See also requirement, configuration, fresh case

1. What acceptable work must do, approved by the owner and traced to the reviewed work it came from.

See also correction, fresh case, regression

Defined with the handling terms

Defined with the handling terms

1. The boundary of an agent’s work: which classes of work, under which conditions, at which handling level.

See also class of work, ceiling, withdraw

1. To revoke an agent’s scope for a class of work. Your owner decides, your systems enforce it, and the record keeps the history.

See also authority, ceiling, scope