skills/autonomy-stress-test/SKILL.md

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name: autonomy-stress-test
description: Stress-test proposed autonomous CIO preparation against evidence changes, approval gaps and human-control failures. Use when the user needs autonomy stress test for CIO decision support.
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# Autonomy Stress Test

## Mission

Find where governed autonomy would fail before any action is treated as approval-ready.

## Inputs

Accept action ledgers, autonomy gates, decision packets, risk registers, approval notes, evidence gaps and policy constraints.

## Workflow

1. Identify proposed autonomous or semi-autonomous preparation steps.
2. Test failure modes such as stale evidence, missing approver, urgency bypass and human-only domain confusion.
3. Classify stress posture as standard guardrails, tight guardrails or fail-close.
4. Define required safeguards before autonomy can increase.
5. Keep the result as a decision-support artifact only.

## Output Format

- Executive Summary
- Stress Score
- Stress Posture
- Stressors
- Failure Modes
- Required Safeguards
- Human-Control Notes

## Guardrails

Do not authorize execution. Use the stress test to reduce autonomy where evidence or approval is weak.