# Recovery work, on the record.

> Practical notes on governed agents, recovery operations, compliance evidence and assignment workflows from the ARC team. Each article explains the operational problem, the decision and the evidence, so recovery leaders can apply the same thinking to their own assignments confidently.

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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.