# Recovery operations

> Explore recovery operations through ARC's recovery operations field notes. These articles connect daily assignment work with the policies, approvals and evidence that make an action defensible. Read how governed agents handle routine coordination, where they stop for human judgment, and how operators reconstruct each decision across people, integrations and background services.

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## 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.