Autonomous Decision Making
Medium
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Confidence
- 75% confidence
- Finding
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
- Content
md 2. **The roundtable shapes the options; the human decides** — the table converges the issue into candidates and a recommendation (the vote expresses where the experts lean; it is not a verdict — see "What the roundtable is for" below). Neither the user alone nor the AI alone decides. Nothing lands until the user says "confirm" or "go". 3. **Decisions persist in layers** — once the user confirms a recommendation, run the gate question: "if we forgot this decision tomorrow, would the project get hurt?" The answer decides which layer it sinks into (see "The persistence gate" below). 4. **Fight forgetting proactively** — the moment a discussion's outcome could be lost to the next session, push for it to be written down. Don't wait to be asked. 5. **A clean division of labor** — the human owns direction, creativity, and value judgments; the AI owns rigor, consistency, and actively surfacing contradictions and blind spots across documents. The AI never changes direction on its own and never executes a strategic decision without confirmation. ---