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Conclusion
Define safe callable contracts and workflow boundaries that can return decisions to people.
Context
Connecting AI exposes implicit permissions and data semantics. Clarify API contracts and workflow approval points before adding autonomous callers.
Design and verification scope
Assess the following responsibilities and boundaries when designing and verifying a configuration.
- API boundaries
- Data access
- Identity
- Auditability
- Event models
- Knowledge sources
- Human workflows
Decision rationale
Use the relationship between API boundaries and Human workflows to compare the responsibilities of the selected approach and alternatives. Separate retained constraints from what the new boundary can change.
Trade-offs
Compare the implementation, maintenance and review work introduced by Data access with the control it provides. Include failure paths, operator effort and conditions in which the approach should not be adopted.
Limitations
Review contracts, data ownership, acting identities, audit events and approval paths. API modernization is not evidence of AI outcomes.
Related case context
These cases provide attributed design context. They do not establish that the proposed experiments or configurations were delivered in those engagements.