Agent or Workflow?
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Shift briefing · Autonomy Comparison Lab
A task suite includes exact calculations, routine document intake, and an ambiguous investigation. Build two candidate approaches and compare their behaviour.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Choose between deterministic workflow and agent autonomy based on variability and risk.
- Agent autonomy
- deterministic pipelines
- bounded decision-making
- evaluation
Decide Commit to a defensible choice under real constraints.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Build HallWorkflow bench · Agent sandbox
- 02Test Suite RackTest suite rack
- 03Risk BoardRisk board
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- JudgmentChooses proportionate actions and knows when to verify, abstain, or escalate.In 27 of 48
- CreationDesigns prompts, workflows, systems, and workable artifacts.In 23 of 48
- ReliabilityTests, reproduces, validates, recovers, and produces consistent outcomes.In 39 of 48
Chamber III · Action Chamber
Build only what you can stand behind, and stop a release that is not safe.
Construct, integrate, evaluate, debug, secure, deploy, observe and responsibly operate AI-enabled systems.
Play Protocol 33 in first person, with the clock running.