Autonomy

One number from 0 to 100 controls how independently Curia acts, across all channels and skills.

Curia’s autonomy engine gives you a single dial to control how independently your AI team operates. A score from 0 to 100 determines whether Curia acts on its own, asks before acting, drafts without sending, or sticks to pure advice. The score applies across all agents, channels, and skills — one setting, consistent behavior everywhere. You can read it or change it at any time with a plain-English instruction.

The five autonomy bands

The score maps to one of five named bands. Each band has a precise behavioral description that is injected into the Coordinator’s system prompt on every task, so Curia self-governs in real time — no restart required.

Band	Score range	Behavior
Full	90–100	Acts independently. No confirmation needed for standard operations. Flags only genuinely novel, irreversible, or high-stakes actions where the cost of pausing is justified.
Spot-check	80–89	Proceeds on routine tasks. Notes consequential actions — sending email, creating commitments — in its response so you maintain visibility without being asked.
Approval Required	70–79	Presents a plan and asks for explicit confirmation before any consequential action. Routine reporting, summarization, and information retrieval proceed without approval.
Draft Only	60–69	Prepares drafts, plans, and analysis but does not send, publish, schedule, or act without an explicit go-ahead. Surfaces work for your review; execution requires a direct instruction.
Restricted	< 60	Advisory only. Presents options and analysis. Takes no independent action whatsoever. Every step with an external effect requires an explicit instruction from you.

Curia defaults to 75 (Approval Required) on first deployment. This is a conservative starting point — Curia confirms before taking consequential actions until you decide to extend more independence.

Checking your current score

You can ask Curia about its autonomy score from any channel using plain language:

Ask Curia directly: “What is your current autonomy score?”

Curia will report its score, the current band name, what that means in practice, and the last few score changes with timestamps.

Example response:

Autonomy score: 75 — Approval Required

At this level, I'll confirm before taking consequential actions like
sending email or creating commitments, but can proceed independently
on research and summarization.

Recent changes:
  2026-04-03  75 → 75  (approval-required)  "starting point"  — ceo

Changing your score

Tell Curia: “Set your autonomy score to 85” from the CLI, Signal, or any channel you trust.

You can add an optional reason: “Set your autonomy score to 85 — I want you to proceed on routine emails without asking.”

Score changes take effect immediately on the next task — no restart required. The Coordinator loads the current score from Postgres at the start of every task, so a change you make mid-session applies on the very next action.

Only the CEO can change the autonomy score. The set-autonomy skill requires a CEO-level caller context. Requests from external email senders or unverified contacts will be rejected.

How to calibrate your score

A practical approach for new deployments:

1. Start at 75 (the default)

   Approval Required means Curia asks before sending anything or making commitments. This gives you full visibility into what it would do without any risk of surprises.

2. Watch it work for a week

   Pay attention to which confirmations feel unnecessary. If Curia is asking about things you always say yes to, your score is too low for your comfort level.

3. Move to 80–85 when you're comfortable

   Spot-check lets Curia proceed on routine tasks while still noting consequential actions in its responses. You stay informed without being interrupted.

4. Reserve 90+ for high-trust workflows

   Full autonomy is appropriate when you have established that Curia handles a class of tasks reliably and you don’t need to review each one. Consider using it for specific recurring tasks before applying it globally.

Autonomy engine mechanics

How action_risk levels, execution gates, and automatic score adjustment work under the hood.

Security overview

Understand the broader governance and audit framework Curia operates within.