Per-action autonomy means the level of automation is chosen task by task rather than all at once. For each kind of action you pick one of three settings: let the agent do it automatically, have it draft the action for your review, or leave it off entirely. Sending a routine tenant reply, retrying a failed rent payment, and dispatching a vendor can each sit at a different level.
This granularity is what makes autonomy safe to adopt. Instead of a single 'let the AI run everything' switch, you start by automating only the low-stakes, easily reversible tasks, keep sensitive ones in draft-for-review, and turn the rest off. Each setting is recorded, so it is always clear what the agent was and was not allowed to do.
Per-action autonomy is the practical on-ramp for trust: the design intent is that you widen the settings you are comfortable with as the record proves itself, not that you hand over blanket authority on day one. It sits alongside bounded autonomy, which adds spend and approval thresholds within each automated action.
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Bounded autonomy
An approach where an AI agent acts on its own only within limits you set, per-task spend and approval thresholds, and asks for a human decision above them.
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Approval queue
A single prioritized list where an autonomous system shows what it has already handled and the short list of decisions that still need a human to approve or deny.
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Autopilot (autonomous software)
Software that carries a task from start to finish on its own, within the rules and spending limits the owner sets, rather than merely drafting it for a human to run. It is the counterpart to copilot AI: a copilot suggests, an autopilot does, and asks only when an action falls outside its bounds.
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Copilot AI
Software that drafts, suggests, and summarizes to speed up a human who still executes every task — the counterpart to autopilot software, which finishes tasks end-to-end within rules the owner sets.
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