Agents
Standing instructions that watch for something and act on it — and the guardrails that make that safe.
An agent is a standing instruction rather than a question: watch for a condition, and when it holds, do something. Chase the overdue invoices. Flag the receipts that did not match. Re-forecast when a large order lands.
- An agent runs under an identity with roles, and it can do exactly what that identity can do — no more.
- Every run is recorded, with what it looked at and what it changed, and can be reviewed after the fact.
- An agent can be set to propose rather than to act, which is how you learn whether you agree with it before it starts doing things on its own.
Start an agent in propose mode and read a week of its proposals before arming it. An agent that acts is only as good as the condition you wrote, and the cheapest place to discover a badly written condition is a list of suggestions nobody carried out.