Objective, constraints and components
The model constrains work through a stated objective, scope, acceptance criteria, evidence-return contract and review-required state. A workforce can prepare plans, execute authorised tasks, report failure and request clarification. It cannot create authority, change protected scope or promote its own output.
Final authority
Human approval determines objectives, acceptance, rejection, return and promotion.
Bounded workers
Tools, services and models are treated as task-specific contributors, not governing actors.
Evidence return
Results, limitations and failure information must accompany a decision request.
Promotion gate
No result becomes canonical merely because it completed, scored well or retried.
Control flow
Human-governed orchestration
Implementation history and validation
The authority model is an explicit doctrine. Workshop interface work has implemented review-facing surfaces and disabled or removed unsupported execution controls. Recorded live-wiring work also kept ordinary conversational sending grounded and read-only where operational authority was not available.
- Claim
- Koda has an explicit human-governance model for bounded agent work.
- Method
- Authority doctrine review and implementation records for review-required interface controls.
- Result
- The public record supports the distinction between worker capability and human authority.
- Limitation
- The model does not prove that every future integration is complete, nor does it grant autonomous external action.
- Source period
- 2026 doctrine and implementation records.
Failure, recovery and current state
Failure, retry, cancellation and recovery must remain bounded and visible. A retry is not a promotion; an incomplete result remains review-required. Provider and model relationships are intentionally described only as distinct contributors in a governed workflow, without private operational detail.
Future development includes stronger evidence contracts and additional bounded integrations. It excludes autonomous external action and self-authorised promotion.
Related systems and provenance
Forge Workshop supplies a review-facing workspace; Evidence and External Memory preserves the decision record; Nano Factory applies the same no-promotion boundary to model research.
Sources: canonical Workshop authority and governed-workshop doctrine, plus public implementation evidence. Provider-specific and private implementation detail is excluded.