Both agent readiness instruments produce a weighted composite, and an average is a claim about the whole. A break is a claim about one link. Those do not commute. Why the score tells you what your exposure costs, and only an ordered read can tell you where you stop.
A category of agent software now ships the org chart as the interface for running agents. It is intuitive, and it is the wrong unit of analysis. A reporting line records who answers to whom. It does not bound what may be committed, on which workflow, by which principal.
Over 40% of agent programs will be canceled by 2027. Blast radius decides which survive: how much a wrong action costs, and whether you can take it back.
Pull the audit log for the last purchase order your agent placed. Whose name is on it? In most enterprises, the answer is a person, sometimes one who was on vacation that week. What the log will not say is that an agent did this.
A demand-side agent that gets you wrong costs you a recommendation, and it self-corrects tomorrow. An operational agent that gets it wrong has already placed the order. Recommendations are reversible. Actions are not. Why agent readiness takes two instruments, not one.
