Behavioral fitness
Does this configuration perform reliably enough for the task and its current authority?
Progressive Autonomy Architecture
Let systems earn autonomy.
PAA lets a defined task earn autonomy through reliable performance and viable operating costs under ongoing evaluation. Evidence guides configuration and oversight decisions. When behavior regresses, safer oversight returns.
The governing idea
Evidence governs operation
- Governance loop
- Keep or reconfigure: same authority
- Regression
- A worker performs a defined task.
- An external evaluator judges the result; the implementation records its operating cost.
- The system retains behavioral and economic evidence.
- Evidence may justify a configuration change or establish eligibility for different oversight.
- A separate governance decision changes authority when justified.
- Confirmed regression restores the declared safer operating mode.
Evidence can justify a better worker or operating configuration while authority stays unchanged. It can also make a task eligible for less review. A declared approval or automatic rule grants that change; evaluation continues under the new oversight.
Two dimensions of fitness
Economic fitness
Does this configuration deliver acceptable outcomes at a viable operating cost?
Each configuration must satisfy the task's declared bar. A higher score alone does not justify a higher operating cost, and a lower cost cannot excuse a disqualifying failure. Compare the whole configuration: worker, evaluation, review, retries, and escalation.
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