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  "slug": "when-the-agent-had-to-ask-github",
  "title": "When the Agent Had to Ask GitHub",
  "subtitle": "What happened when an autonomous engineering system reached the edge of its own knowledge and did something far more interesting than hallucinate an answer",
  "thesis": "A mature autonomous system must know where its authority and evidence end, and route unresolved questions to the human or institution that actually owns the answer.",
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      "explanation": "Bounded roles and earned autonomy explain why the worker escalates when the required authority is outside its envelope."
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