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Piloting and governing an agent
Also called: agent rollout, 90-day agent plan, earning the leash
Introducing an agent that takes actions the way you'd introduce a new hire on probation: one low-stakes process, tight scope, human-approved consequential steps, and a clean log that has to earn any expansion.
Agents differ from chat because they act. Governing the rollout — least privilege, gated actions, a named owner, reviewed logs — is what keeps a useful pilot from quietly becoming un-governed automation nobody signed off on.
Turning on autonomy. 'Let the agent handle it' is the end state you might earn, not the starting configuration; the pilot exists precisely to test whether it deserves more rope.