AI agent deployment readiness
AI agents take actions. Are your authority and accountability systems ready to govern what they do? Twelve questions, three minutes.
1.Do you have a clearly documented decision authority map naming who can decide what?
2.Are decisions currently recorded with rationale, or just outcomes?
3.If an AI agent took an action overnight, would you be able to trace who would have authorized it?
4.Do you have boundaries (rate limits, scope constraints, abort conditions) defined for autonomous internal tools?
5.When something goes wrong, can you reconstruct the decision chain?
6.Are there clear cost / blast-radius limits on autonomous actions?
7.Is there a documented escalation path when an AI agent encounters ambiguity?
8.Do humans review AI agent outputs before they affect production state?
9.Are AI agent actions logged the same way human actions are?
10.Have you defined what categories of decisions agents CANNOT make?
11.Is there a single owner accountable for each AI agent deployment?
12.Are agent permissions scoped to specific tasks or broadly granted?
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