Autonomy should be treated as a measured privilege, not a default setting. In regulated environments, the agent's technical capability is only one part of the decision. The system also needs a clear view of task risk, reversibility, confidence, cost, and the blast radius of a bad action.
That is the idea behind Agent Autonomy Score: make supervision a first-class control. Low-risk, reversible work can move quickly. High-risk work should slow down, ask for review, or provide a stronger audit trail before it touches production systems or client-facing workflows.
A useful control records why an agent was allowed to act, when it was stopped, and what evidence informed the decision.