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Evaluate what an automated workflow is allowed to do, how exceptions reach a person, and which record proves the outcome. Permission, execution, and evidence are separate checks.
Choose the question you need to resolve
Identify whether the question concerns permission, an uncertain outcome or a changed workflow.
A successful test does not itself grant authority for a live action.
Fallback exists, but can the team sustain the workload?
Throughput, age, quality, handoffs, staffing, and safe degraded duration form a bounded envelope.
Test fallback capacityCross-system action receipts remain mismatched.
Business, detection, and evidence clocks drive state-specific escalation without duplicate action.
Age and escalate the uncertaintyDead-letter messages expired before review.
Producer, transport, consumer, and provider evidence bound the affected population and residual blind spot.
Reconstruct the lost populationWe need to prove fallback and manual mode before an outage.
Detection, activation, degraded operation, restoration, and cleanup produce reviewable evidence.
Run a bounded fallback exerciseAn AI-requested action crossed several systems.
Requested, accepted, external, local, ledger, and notification states remain distinct.
Reconcile every action receiptRetrieved sources disagree with each other.
Detection, authority, uncertainty, citation, and action boundaries are scored.
Sample conflict handlingFailed webhook messages are accumulating in a dead-letter queue.
Retention, ownership, replay safety, compensation, quarantine, and loss are handled per message.
Disposition before redriveThe approval queue is aging faster than people can decide.
Evidence delay, reviewer capacity, expiry, and bypasses are measured without widening authority silently.
Review queue flow and capacityIncident logs are incomplete.
Independent records produce confirmed, possible, excluded, duplicate, and unknown dispositions.
Reconstruct the affected populationRetrieved context may be stale or conflicting.
Authority, version, effective time, scope, conflict, and trust are checked before action.
Apply the source-freshness gateA provider recovered after manual fallback.
Manual effects, late events, duplicates, and the automation checkpoint are reconciled.
Hand authority back safelyAn external action timed out and may have succeeded.
A known outcome or explicit uncertainty tied to the original action identity.
Reconcile before retryingA temporary automation override is ending.
A record that checks expiry, restored controls and outstanding consequences.
Close out the overrideOCR extracted the wrong equipment identifier.
Preserved extraction evidence, reviewed transcription and a check of dependent records.
Correct the source-linked fieldA workflow changed after its last test.
A bounded reuse decision and focused retesting of the affected behavior.
Review which test evidence still appliesGuides, references, and tools
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Guides explain the workflow. References define the terms. Tools let you work through your own assumptions.
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