AgentRisk

What sits behind the assurances your agents act on?

When agents revise a plan together, their new dependencies may sit outside the assumptions of the original approval. Reuse an unsupported clearance across workflows, and one assumption can support many consequential actions.Examine one autonomous workflow ↗ How this financial example works+A replacement plan creates the loop.An independent funding source is delayed.

Which control keeps their combined actions inside the approved boundary? What evidence shows that it works?

Component-level control does not establish system-level control.Systemic agent risk is the potential for financial or operational harm arising from how autonomous agents’ authority, dependencies and actions combine. The unit of review should match the exposure. HYPOTHETICAL / THREE DISTINCT PAYMENT BATCHESLet the control prove its value.Without a shared guardWith a shared reservation One institution.

The agent has stopped. Has its authority?

A stop command may halt new instructions without cancelling accepted work, delegated permissions or downstream commitments.Containment has to follow the authority, not just the agent. HYPOTHETICAL PAYMENT QUEUE / NO SHARED CANCELLATION ORIGINATING AGENTActiveCan issue new instructionsALREADY ACCEPTED DOWNSTREAMInstruction 01 $8MInstruction 02 $8MThese instructions have left the agent’s control.