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How we govern an
AI workforce
Agents don't improvise the business.
They inherit it.
Alex Shkor
· Shkor Labs & Cooperative 42
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01 · Constitution
Every product starts with
7 decisions
.
01
Mission · product · audience
02
Pricing · channels
03
Boundaries
04
Metrics
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02 · The board
Humans govern through
meetings
.
Sessions are recorded, transcribed and summarized. Decisions become doctrine.
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03 · Distribution
Doctrine changes are
deployments
, not conversations.
A versioned manifest carries every principle to every agent. A new rule reached the whole fleet in about four minutes.
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04 · Security
UI hiding is cosmetics.
The server is the gate.
Tenant isolation is enforced on every request.
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05 · Guardrails
What we never
hand over
.
01
Money stays human-gated
02
Every action is an auditable event
03
Kill-switch per agent: revoke its token
04
New features ship owner-only first
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06 · The asset
Govern the
harness
, not the model.
Models get swapped. Identity, decisions, principles, skills, memory, tools and rituals stay.
identity
decisions
principles
skills
memory
tools
rituals
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Autonomy you can
audit
. Let's build yours.
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