Goal
Design agent experiences around authority, progress, failure, and intervention.
Step-by-step
- Bound permissions.
- show the plan and current action.
- preserve checkpoints.
- define escalation.
Worked scenario
Pause an automation before it sends a reviewed report.
Write down the current behavior, the intended change, and the evidence you would need before deciding it worked. Use synthetic or anonymized material for exploration.
Acceptance check
The user can understand and stop future work at any point.
Common failure
A convincing artifact can hide untested assumptions. Keep an explicit list of unknowns and test the highest-consequence transition before expanding the work.
Next step
Apply the guide to one bounded task, review the evidence, and adjust the approach. The linked reference is a separate publication; this guide is Knoveya's independent treatment of the topic.