The Agent Authority Escalation Model
Capability and authority are separate design decisions. A framework for what an agent is authorized to decide, drawn from Meta, Claude Mythos, and Workday.
Jul 2026applied-ai
Applied AI: systems, decisions, and how they actually get built.
Capability and authority are separate design decisions. A framework for what an agent is authorized to decide, drawn from Meta, Claude Mythos, and Workday.
Seven dimensions determine whether a production applied AI system delivers: Data Architecture, Domain Logic, Orchestration, Models & Agents, Governance & Containment, Human Judgment, and Calibration. The model is not the most important one.