Authorise one bounded job

Candidate teaching projection; contextual recipe unproved. The JTBD Ledger keeps this route as a gap until a contextual owner accepts the method and retains decision evidence.

Workflow family: People, Capability & Governance.

Outcome

The worker and people affected receive an accepted mandate stating the outcome, responsibility, allowed actions and information, approvals, evidence, stop, recovery, and correction owner.

Use When

Trigger this job before a person or agent begins delegated work. The accountable human mandate owner retains purpose, permission, spending, accepted risk, consequential judgment, authority changes, and stop.

Inputs

Bring the job and beneficiary, desired output and outcome, named worker, allowed tools, data and actions, prohibited actions, resource and time limits, approval points, gauge, stop conditions, recovery path, and review time.

Recipe

1. Name one job, beneficiary, owner, and observable acceptance condition.
2. List permitted and prohibited actions, information, tools, spend, and contacts.
3. Define checkpoints, escalation, stop conditions, and a recoverable state.
4. Ask the worker to restate the mandate and expose ambiguities.
5. Record human acceptance before work starts; review authority when conditions change.

Human and AI Control

An agent may act only inside the recorded mandate. Technical access is not authority, silence is not approval, and completion does not broaden permission. Stop on ambiguity, protected-constraint risk, expired authority, unexpected external consequence, or inability to recover.

Output and Handoff

Return the accepted mandate, acknowledgements, approval state, checkpoint, evidence destination, stop owner, and recovery instructions. Hand authorised work to its job owner and the resulting receipt to outcome review.

Evidence and Stop

Retain the mandate revision, restatement, approvals, actions, exceptions, stops, and recovery outcome. Compare actual action with permission and acceptance. Stop and contain work when scope or authority diverges. A signed mandate does not prove correct execution, safety, or beneficiary value.

Next

Correct the mandate when a boundary was misunderstood or insufficient. The human owner alone expands authority; return execution-method failures to the contextual job and governance failures here.