Public validation asset

AI Agent Delegation Receipt Checklist

Use this checklist to review whether an AI or tool delegation path leaves enough decision evidence for a human reviewer.

Boundary note: this is a public validation asset, not production deployment and not evidence of a deployed customer workflow.

Route decision

  • What work item is being routed?
  • Which lanes were considered?
  • Which lane was selected?
  • What reason was recorded for the route?
  • What confidence or uncertainty should a reviewer see?

Delegation boundary

  • What may the AI or tool do without further approval?
  • What actions are blocked?
  • What actions are allowed only after approval?
  • What data or context is excluded from the delegated path?
  • What side effects are out of scope?

Human checkpoint

  • Who reviews the decision before risk increases?
  • What condition sends the work to a human?
  • What does the reviewer approve, reject, or escalate?
  • Is the checkpoint visible in the record?

Blocked actions

  • Are irreversible or high-impact actions listed explicitly?
  • Are customer-impacting, security-impacting, or data-changing steps blocked by default?
  • Is there a clear reason for each blocked action?

Approval / escalation

  • What approval is required before a risky step?
  • Who owns escalation?
  • What happens if confidence is low or context is incomplete?
  • Is the escalation path recorded?

Replayable receipt

  • Can a reviewer reconstruct the route, boundary, checkpoint, and outcome?
  • Does the receipt show what was allowed, blocked, and gated?
  • Does it preserve the reason for the decision?
  • Can it be reviewed without depending on hidden runtime state?

What should remain after the work

  • A bounded work item.
  • A route decision.
  • A delegation boundary.
  • A human checkpoint or reason it was not required.
  • A list of blocked and gated actions.
  • A replayable receipt.

What this checklist does not claim

  • It is not evidence of a deployed customer workflow.
  • It does not prove operational outcomes.
  • It does not make an autonomous incident-response claim.
  • It does not describe an open participation system.
  • It does not require public source access.