Scope Creep
Low
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Confidence
- 75% confidence
- Finding
Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
- Content
md owing incumbents *can* move when threatened. Per the AI/software-tools stop-rule, if an incumbent can replicate a thin agent via API in two sprints, the entrant has a feature, not a disruption. The durable disruptors are the ones whose advantage is a *pricing-model and cost-structure* asymmetry the incumbent cannot copy without repricing its whole book. **Step 5 — Map upward migration path.** Stage 1: automate one narrow, low-stakes job at usage pricing (tier-1 tickets, autocomplete). Stage 2: expand scope and reliability, move to higher-stakes work and mid-market accounts, accumulate proprietary workflow data. Stage 3: sell the "agentic platform" into the enterprise core the incumbents defend — the tier where seats and margins are richest. The migration is visibly in progress (coding assistants moving from autocomplete to multi-file agents; support tools moving from deflection to full resolution), but Stage 3 is **not yet proven**, which is why the verdict below is *partial, not conf
