Glossary
Bounded workflow
A business process in which the data an agent may read, the tools it may call and the actions needing approval are defined in code before the agent runs.
Example
Writes that exceed a threshold wait for an approval tied to that exact action and its expiry.
Assured workflow engineering →Related terms
01Staged autonomyGranting an agent authority in four stages: offline, shadow, supervised, limited; each expansion requires owner approval and new evidence.02Agent reliability engineeringThe practice of bounding, verifying, recovering and measuring AI agents that act inside enterprise systems, so that autonomy is expanded on evidence.