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Agent autonomy vs. manual control
For each case in "Agent autonomy vs. manual control", name the signal and the response you would use.
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Agent autonomy vs. manual control
More autonomy is appropriate when the task has a verifiable end state and a cheap rollback: a feature branch, a test suite that will catch regressions, a diff a human approves before merge. It's risky when the blast radiusHow much breaks if a change goes wrong; the scope of potential damage. Press Enter for the full definition. is large, the change is hard to verify or the work touches something that's expensive to get wrong. The skill is matching autonomy to reversibility.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Autonomy should track reversibility: the safer the change is to undo, the more rope the agent gets.