# ARC

> Field notes from ARC 's product and recovery operations team. Read how ARC designs assignment authority, agent autonomy and evidence, with practical explanations of policy choices, failure boundaries and review patterns. Each article connects the architecture to daily recovery work and shows where people retain control as agents move from observation toward bounded action.

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3 posts

## Agent autonomy should be earned per client

Shadow, suggest, policy-bound and sampled autonomy give recovery teams a reversible way to promote agents per client.

## Dispatch approval belongs to an exact assignment version

A dispatch proposal is a requested operation, not physical authority. ARC binds it to an assignment version, authority epoch and address.

## A payment stop can arrive before the assignment

Why ARC fences an exact source order before the assignment exists, and why receipt, enforcement, delivery and acknowledgment are separate facts.