Live supervision

A person follows the agent's work as it happens, and interrupts when it drifts. It is the earliest human signal: a wrong turn is stopped before more work is built on it.

What it sees

Drift as it starts: a misread task, a wrong approach, a file that should not be touched, effort out of proportion to the problem. A person sees it in the agent's steps before any test fails, because they know what was meant. It is expensive: it costs a person's full attention for as long as they watch, and it covers only the part of the work they watched.

Reading the signal

• An interruption: the person stopped the agent. Something in its last steps was wrong.
• The correction that follows: the next instruction, which says what was wrong and what to do instead.
• No interruption: the person saw nothing worth stopping in what they watched. It is not a review of the result.

Each correction is recorded, and one made more than once becomes a rule another sensor checks, so a person no longer has to watch for it.