ECHO™ Role Libraryby ECHO Consulting

Check · CK-10 · v1.0

Adopted or Enforced?

Four plain questions for every rule you rely on.

The ECHO line

Writing a rule down adopts it. A setting is what enforces it.

For owners who have written limits into a role and want to know which ones would actually hold. For each rule you answer four questions: Is it written into the role? Have you seen it hold? Does a setting enforce it? Would it hold without you?

TO BE TESTED — RESULTS WILL BE SHAREDFrom how we run our own AI agent team10 min
What it catches

Rules you've written down that nothing actually enforces.

Setup time

10 min

Steps

  1. List the rules you rely on most, one per line. Start with every item on the role's "Never without my OK" list.
  2. Is it written into the role? Point to the line.
  3. Have you seen it hold? Point to a real time it stopped, in the record.
  4. Does a setting enforce it? Name the setting and where it is. If you don't know, write "don't know".
  5. Would it hold without you? Picture a week when you can't check anything, and say what would still stop the action.

What to do with the result

A rule with no setting behind it is guidance. If it must never break, find the setting, or keep that step with a person. Start with the rules that touch money, customers or anything you can't undo.

A pasted role guides the agent. Your tool's settings are what stop an action.

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