With the rise of “autonomous agent” systems that can perform sequences of actions without constant input, we must establish clear boundaries for their application. Leaving these machines to operate in an unmonitored loop poses serious compliance and operational risks.
The Myth of Fully Autonomous Systems
Many developers present agentic frameworks as self-correcting units that can manage entire businesses. In practice, however, these systems are prone to drift. Without external validation, a small processing error in the first step can compound over multiple iterations, leading to a complete corruption of the ledger.
Implementing the ‘Dossier Rule’
To counter this drift, RMJ Insight enforces the Dossier Rule:
- Every automated conclusion must be linked directly to its source document (its “Filed Evidence”).
- If the source cannot be verified, the conclusion is marked as
UNRELIABLE. - The final step of any workflow must be manually triggered by a human operator.
We must use automated tools to accelerate our research, but we must never let them write the history of our registries.