Autonomous Decision Making
Medium
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Content
**Handoff thresholds (canonical — all files use these exact values):** - **BLOCKED** — TOTAL < 30, OR any dimension ≤ 4. You must continue iterating. Do not ask the user — just keep working. - **BORDERLINE** — 30 ≤ TOTAL < 40 with no dimension ≤ 4. List 5+ specific things you would fix in the next pass. Handoff only if the user explicitly asked for a quick result. - **ALLOWED** — TOTAL ≥ 40 AND every dimension ≥ 6. A dimension scored 5 is NOT allowed — it is borderline; review and improve it before handoff.
- Confidence
- 88% confidence
- Finding
- The instruction 'Do not ask the user — just keep working' encourages the agent to continue iterating autonomously rather than seeking clarification or confirmation when quality thresholds are not met. In an agentic environment, this can lead to unbounded tool use, excessive compute consumption, or acting beyond the user's intended stop condition, especially if combined with rendering or file-editing loops.
