Glossary
Agent reliability engineering
The practice of bounding, verifying, recovering and measuring AI agents that act inside enterprise systems, so that autonomy is expanded on evidence.
Example
Chainfore applies it in five stages, Define, Bound, Engineer, Verify and Operate, with acceptance criteria agreed before the build.
How we deliver →Related terms
01Bounded workflowA business process in which the data an agent may read, the tools it may call and the actions needing approval are defined in code before the agent runs.02Read-back verificationAfter an agent writes to a system of record, reading the record back to confirm the intended change exists exactly once.03Staged autonomyGranting an agent authority in four stages: offline, shadow, supervised, limited; each expansion requires owner approval and new evidence.