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THE COMPANION

SECTION 18

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONinteraction6-12mconfidence / high

Interfaces Graduate Agency

Projection: assistants will expose a visible ladder of agency—suggest, draft, simulate, act with confirmation, then bounded autonomy. The user should always see the current rung, permissions, and escape hatch. Agency is too consequential to remain an accidental side effect of connecting one more tool.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

The agent index documents varying autonomy levels; hazardous-agent research demonstrates why action capability needs explicit safety boundaries.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    The 2025 AI Agent Index — published June 2026

    peer-reviewed transparency index / published 2026-06-25 / retrieved 2026-07-10

  2. S02
    AGENTSAFE: Benchmarking Embodied Agents on Hazardous Instructions

    peer-reviewed benchmark / published 2026-06-01 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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