# Agent operating model steering brief

Use this brief to approve the ownership model for an agent before it receives production data, tool access, or authority. The model should identify who owns outcomes, behavior, reliability, controls, and operations.

## Steering sections

- Business outcome and success measure.
- Runtime behavior owner and release authority.
- Service owner, support queue, SLO, and runbook.
- Control owner, approval thresholds, and audit evidence.
- Decision to pilot, operate, expand, narrow, or stop.