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Part 2

Part 2: Bounded autonomy

Durable state is necessary, but it is not enough. Work must stay inside its assigned boundary, authority must expire without allowing a stale writer to return, and recovery must reconcile evidence.

Durable state is necessary, but it is not enough. Work must stay inside its assigned boundary, authority must expire without allowing a stale writer to return, and recovery must reconcile evidence rather than guess what a dead process accomplished.

Chapters 4 through 7 turn those constraints into mechanisms. You will qualify five different isolation planes, fence late writers, recover a process killed between intent and completion, and finally let a durable signal create governed work without a human prompt. The sequence matters. Proactive execution arrives last because it amplifies every boundary mistake that came before it.

The result is bounded autonomy: the organization may wake and act, while the host can still show which authority admitted the action, which workspace contained it, and which evidence survived a crash.

Continue to Chapter 4: Work stays inside its boundary.

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