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Issue 00216 min

Autonomy is a rollback problem.

A field guide to expanding an agent's authority through bounded action spaces, exact approvals, failure drills, canary exposure, and recovery that works before production depends on it.

  • Agent systems
  • Autonomy
  • Guardrails
  • Evaluation
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Issue 00118 min

The model is not the system.

A field guide to putting GPT-5.6 or Fable 5 inside an accountable operating system: one that routes deliberately, acts through a harness, keeps receipts, and ships work humans can verify.

  • Agent systems
  • GPT-5.6
  • Fable 5
  • Codex
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