Field note 03
Approval is a control, not the product
Some actions need a person. Some should run inside a charter. The policy should be explicit either way.
Review by action class
Forcing a person to approve every low-risk action can create a queue without creating control. Allowing every action to run autonomously creates the opposite problem. The useful boundary sits at the action class.
Charter-bounded autonomy
New workers begin without action authority. Teams can require review for consequential actions, permit bounded actions inside an active operating charter, and reserve automatic execution for protective or otherwise explicitly safe behavior.
The decision should remain inspectable
Operators should be able to see who granted authority, what it covers, when it expires, what happened inside the boundary, and which requests were sent back for review.
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