Architecting an AI-native workflow — a 5-step playbook in code — step 6 of 9
A canonical implicit-policy failure: "the sales process is 'talk to Sarah, she knows how we do enterprise.'" That's tribal knowledge. An agent can't ask Sarah. The fix is to make Sarah's knowledge explicit as a data rule.
The spec below has refund_policy = "ask the support lead". An
agent reading this has nothing to ground in. Replace it with an
explicit rule dict containing auto_approve_under (dollar
threshold below which the agent can refund without human review)
and requires_human_above (the same threshold). Use $100.
Expected output:
{'auto_approve_under': 100, 'requires_human_above': 100}
A canonical implicit-policy failure: "the sales process is 'talk to Sarah, she knows how we do enterprise.'" That's tribal knowledge. An agent can't ask Sarah. The fix is to make Sarah's knowledge explicit as a data rule.
The spec below has refund_policy = "ask the support lead". An
agent reading this has nothing to ground in. Replace it with an
explicit rule dict containing auto_approve_under (dollar
threshold below which the agent can refund without human review)
and requires_human_above (the same threshold). Use $100.
Expected output:
{'auto_approve_under': 100, 'requires_human_above': 100}
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