My Harness Is Not a Cage. It's an Org Chart.

Your AI agent did not fail because the model was weak. It failed because it made a decision no one had authorized it to make. Maybe it skipped an escalation. Maybe it treated a missing requirement as obvious. Maybe it chose one tradeoff over another because a threshold told it to. The dangerous part is not that the AI made a mistake. The dangerous part is that the system allowed the decision to happen invisibly. This is not a tooling problem. It is a definition problem. What AI Actually Is Befor