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THE ACTORS

SECTION 02

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONworkflow1-3yconfidence / medium

Agent Reliability SLOs

Projection: Buyers will negotiate error budgets for agents across task success, escalation, reversibility, policy compliance, latency, and cost—not uptime alone. Tooling and evaluation activity supplies the substrate. Enforceable contracts that trigger remediation when multidimensional budgets are exhausted would prove this reliability model has entered procurement.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

The cited captures document agent tooling, permissions, memory, and evaluation. They do not establish Agent Reliability SLOs as a deployed mechanism. The adoption test is whether buyers enforce agent error budgets across success, escalation, reversibility, policy, latency, and cost.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    Introducing OpenAI Frontier

    company announcement / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Introducing AgentKit

    company announcement / dated 2025-10-06; updated 2026-06-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  3. S03
    Introducing Claude Tag

    company announcement / published 2026-06-23 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  4. S04
    Concept Paper on Identity and Authority of Software Agents

    government standardization / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  5. S05
    Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl

    analyst release / published 2026-04-28 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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