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The “Ask for More” Button Is an Intake Queue: Budget Requests With a Revert Date
Copilot budget increase requests are GA, and nothing in the docs reverts an approval. Run budget requests as a queue with required fields and a revert date.
automater.aiMemory Is an Input: Write-Provenance Rules for Shared Agent Memory
Shared agent memory lets one agent teach the rest of a repo. Inventory each store, record the source of every write and keep untrusted-input lanes read-only.
automater.aiNever From a 6-Inch Screen: Write a Remote-Approval Policy
A remote approval policy for coding agents: what a phone may approve, what never goes remote, and a presence-marker hook plus a monthly drill to hold the line.
automater.aiBanked Resets Are Perishable Capacity: Keep a Reset Ledger
A Claude rate limit reset refills one window, then expires. Keep a banked resets ledger: grant, expiry, owner, redeem surface, spend rule and a waste report.
automater.aiReview Bots Now Run PR Code: Where They Execute, What They See, What a Verdict Proves
Review bots now run PR code. Register where each one executes, which secrets and egress it gets and what its verdict proves, then drill it with a canary PR.
automater.aiSpeed Is a Meter: Write a Speed Budget Before Anyone Types /fast
Claude fast mode cost is 2x standard for faster output only. Write a speed budget per lane: who may use /fast, opt-in, a monthly cap and tested kill switches.
automater.ai“Unconfigured” Is a Vendor Decision: Snapshot Every Agent Admin Toggle Before Oct 22
Copilot turns on Unconfigured features Oct 22 unless you decide first. Snapshot every agent admin toggle, diff it weekly and give each default an owner.
automater.aiUntrusted Telemetry In, Agent Code Out: Register Every Auto-Remediation Path
Auto-remediation lets error events, incidents and bot comments start coding agents. Register every path, gate the code-writing lanes, then drill with a canary.
automater.aiLeaked Model Names Are Not Candidates: A Rumor-Intake Rule
Leaked model names are not candidates. Admit a model only with an API ID, a price page, terms and a named provider, and park every rumor on a dated watch list.
automater.aiThe Evidence That Earns a Model the Default Slot
A vendor-set default model is a proposal. Pin the incumbent, then promote through shadow and canary lanes on merged-PR, revert and cost-per-task gates.
automater.aiTASKS.md With Receipts: Every Tick Needs Evidence
A TASKS.md checklist survives compaction, but a tick is only a claim. Give every tick a receipt a verifier can re-run, and revert any tick that has none.
automater.aiKill Low-Effort Retry Loops: Price Effort per Completed Task
Reasoning effort cost looks cheap per attempt until you count retries. Record served effort, price effort per completed task, then pin a floor and ceiling.
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