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← 05 / Built for people and agentsFIELD NOTE 19 / Agentic

AI is easy. Permission to act is harder.

The interesting question is not what the model can do. It is what you are prepared to let it do.

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THE THING WE KEEP SEEING

The model is rarely the hardest part of an agentic system.

The harder questions are organisational.

FIELD NOTE 19 / FOLLOW THE WORK

Look at the
whole journey.

An illustrative map of this question.
The useful detail is often between the steps.

  1. 01CAN READ
  2. 02CAN PREPARE
  3. 03CAN ACT
  4. 04MUST ASK
THE USEFUL QUESTION

Read, prepare and act are different permissions. Make the boundary explicit.

01 / START HERE

What can the agent safely understand?

02 / START HERE

Which action is explicit and reversible?

03 / START HERE

Where must a human decide?

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Bring one recurring job. We’ll explore what agents could prepare, where people should decide and how to try it in practice.

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