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Agentic Autonomy Levels: A Working Framework for Deciding How Much to Trust an Agent
Addy Osmani Elevate·July 3, 2026
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Summary
Addy Osmani proposes a framework of autonomy levels for agentic engineering — essentially a spectrum from fully supervised to fully autonomous, with guidelines for when each level is appropriate. The piece provides a practical model for calibrating trust in agent output based on task type and risk.
Why this signal
Directly applicable to Thomas Engineering's decision-making about what to delegate to Claude Code agents. Having a shared autonomy level framework could standardize team conversations about when agents can run unsupervised vs. when they need checkpoints.
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Addy Osmani Elevate · 7/3/2026
Agentic Autonomy Levels