Scoping
Narrowing an agent's deployment to the smallest task and the narrowest authority that still accomplish the job. Task scope is the one-sentence job with every action nameable; authority scope is least-privilege access to only the tools and systems each step provably needs. Scoping is the precondition for containment and for a working stop, because you can only wall off and halt a system whose shape you know.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Narrowing an agent's deployment to the smallest task and the narrowest authority that still accomplish the job. Task scope is the one-sentence job with every action nameable; authority scope is least-privilege access to only the tools and systems each step provably needs. Scoping is the precondition for containment and for a working stop, because you can only wall off and halt a system whose shape you know.
The engineering activity of deciding what problem you are actually solving, in what order, and why, before committing significant time to building a solution. Scoping is itself engineering work, not a preliminary step separate from it.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- You deploy an agent: scoping, containment, and the kill switch you test before launch · Agents Under Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.