Define the decision and its evidence boundary
Begin with a specific task such as prioritizing broken landing pages or preparing an editorial brief. State which sources are allowed, how fresh they must be, and what evidence supports an action. A model response is not a substitute for a source record. Keep untrusted web content and inbound messages outside the system instruction boundary.
- ✓ Name the decision owner and permitted inputs.
- ✓ Distinguish literal observations, computed results, and inferred recommendations.
Separate recommendation from execution
An agent can prepare changes without being allowed to publish them. Use explicit permission scopes for reading, drafting, editing, and external actions. Add idempotency to actions that might be retried, restrict destinations, and retain a record of approvals. Product integrations should be represented according to the connections implemented today rather than a future ecosystem diagram.
- ✓ Require approval for high-impact or externally visible changes.
- ✓ Provide rollback instructions and safe retry behavior for each action.
Evaluate the loop before broadening access
Test representative examples, malformed inputs, missing data, and service failures. Measure task correctness, reviewer corrections, execution failures, and business outcomes separately. Search Intel OS provides a place to explain HGM’s orchestration approach; its page should distinguish operational components from proposed architecture. Increase autonomy only when the evidence and controls justify the larger scope.
- ✓ Retain action provenance and the input version used.
- ✓ Review failed and rejected actions as part of routine operations.