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What Does Done Even Mean? Agents and Paperclip's Liveness Model - Dotta, Paperclip
Model “done” as evidence, verification, authority, residual risk and next ownership—not an agent-set Boolean. This separates forward progress from approval in multi-agent workflows.
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Paperclip treats completion as a bundle containing the artifact, scope, rubric, evidence, verifier, approval authority, residual risk and next action. Its control plane adds explicit transitions, blockers, approvers, audit trails and **bounded watchdog loops**.
Practical Implication
Define a structured completion contract for consequential agent tasks. Separate author from verifier, equip verification agents to run tests or inspect the UI, and assign a next owner so work advances without implying that merge, deploy and release approval are equivalent.
Agent-Ready Context
Paperclip treats completion as a bundle containing the artifact, scope, rubric, evidence, verifier, approval authority, residual risk and next action. Its control plane adds explicit transitions, blockers, approvers, audit trails and **bounded watchdog loops**. Define a structured completion contract for consequential agent tasks. Separate author from verifier, equip verification agents to run tests or inspect the UI, and assign a next owner so work advances without implying that merge, deploy and release approval are equivalent. More structure does not remove the verification bottleneck or prove correctness. Automated evidence is only as strong as its rubric and tooling, while high-risk transitions still need an authorized party willing to own the decision.
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agentcoding#multi-agent#harness-engineering#agent-reliabilityUncertainty
More structure does not remove the verification bottleneck or prove correctness. Automated evidence is only as strong as its rubric and tooling, while high-risk transitions still need an authorized party willing to own the decision.