A mandatory, recorded, challenge-response pause before crossing from safe preparation into live, costly, credentialed, user-impacting, security-sensitive, or irreversible action. Complex expert work creates autopilot risk — humans and AI collaborators alike drift from "the plan is probably right" to
A mandatory, recorded, challenge-response pause before crossing from safe preparation into live, costly, credentialed, user-impacting, security-sensitive, or irreversible action. Complex expert work creates autopilot risk — humans and AI collaborators alike drift from "the plan is probably right" to "run the command" without noticing the consequence class has changed. Borrowing from surgical time-