Scope / Authority Triage
Identify one external effect, the authority required to create it, the owner of that authority and whether a staging/test path exists. The outcome is a simple decision: audit this workflow or do not.
BitEvo engagements are organized around one progression: identify the critical action, test the uncertainty, decide how much of the Authority Budget the workflow has earned, then repair only what verified evidence supports.
Identify one external effect, the authority required to create it, the owner of that authority and whether a staging/test path exists. The outcome is a simple decision: audit this workflow or do not.
Use when one suspected failure controls the decision. We test one critical action chain and one primary hypothesis to determine whether it is reproducible and decision-relevant.
Use when the question is broader than one defect: has this workflow earned its current or proposed Authority Budget through sufficient evidence, independent effect confirmation and bounded recovery?
Implementation is scoped only after the evidence identifies the control gap. Work is tied to explicit owner decisions, rollback requirements and retest criteria — not a generic promise to “make the agent safe.”
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The method stays the same, but the decision it supports changes by role. A useful engagement makes those owner questions explicit before testing.
Use the audit before adding write-capable tools, approval shortcuts or broader autonomous steps.
Use the audit when a working pilot is becoming infrastructure and operational ambiguity is getting expensive.
Use the audit when the control question is larger than model output quality but narrower than an unbounded penetration test.
Use the audit when one workflow is important enough that ownership and failure behavior need to become explicit.
The audit object is the chain that can create an external effect: model, data, permissions, tools, approvals and recovery logic together.
Every additional write right, integration, autonomous step and retry path expands the permission surface. Capability alone does not justify that expansion.
The evidence required to justify a critical action must exist at decision time. Post-hoc logs can explain an event but cannot retroactively authorize it.
Internal completion is not proof when another system was supposed to change. Without independent confirmation, apparent success may be a False Green.
A finding is useful only when it supports a bounded decision: expand, constrain, repair or retest. Implementation follows that decision.
These terms are not package names. They are the operating vocabulary used to describe why a workflow should gain authority, lose it, stop, recover or require stronger confirmation.
Start with one thing the workflow can change in the outside world. From that action we can identify the authority boundary, the evidence needed to justify it and the failure path worth testing.
Map the critical action