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- forward-deployed-engineering references/: ../../../<target> -> ../../<target>
- product-lifecycle references cross-bundle ../../bundles/neckbeard -> ../../neckbeard
- product-lifecycle references/discovery-brief.md prose headings drop bundles/ prefix
- neckbeard eval shell commands bundles/neckbeard/eval -> neckbeard/eval
- production-excellence AGENTS.md depth note updated
- manifest header comments point at ../schemas/bundle-manifest-v1.schema.json
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Authority and Escalation

Before constrained action

Record the access route, identity and privilege needed, approved egress, systems and data in scope, change window, reviewer, rollback or recovery path, external-boundary verification, and evidence that the action succeeded. Load remote-systems-administration for its operational method rather than inventing one here.

Authority table

Decision Proceed only when Escalate to
Scope, sequence, and thin slice Charter names accountable lead and sponsor Engagement sponsor
Access and privilege Authorized identity, least privilege, and route are recorded System owner or security owner
Security boundary Trust boundary, threat assumptions, and controls are reviewed Security owner
Privacy and data use Purpose, classification, access, retention, and deletion are explicit Privacy/data owner
Irreversible change Recovery is tested or an authorized exception is recorded Service or change owner
Material cost or quota Budget owner accepts estimate and guardrail Budget owner
External commitment Contract, customer, or public promise is authorized Business owner
Business priority or portfolio choice Product or executive authority decides Product/business owner

When authority or evidence is missing, stop the action, record the blocker, preserve safe read-only discovery, and escalate with the smallest decision needed. Do not use urgency, stakeholder enthusiasm, or a working demo as an authority substitute.

Applied AI release boundary

An applied-AI demo is not production-ready without a representative baseline, adversarial or failure cases, risk constraints, evaluation results, an owner for residual risk, rollout and rollback evidence, and an explicit release decision. Route evaluation details to agent-evals-and-observability and readiness details to production-readiness.