Autonomous office agents arriving through an existing licence
Statement (NASA form)
Given that spreadsheet and mail agents already ship at low accuracy with no procurement gate, there is a possibility of irreversible sends, filings, or transfers from a cell the user did not read resulting in money or a legal notice moving because a licence auto-updated.
Public notes put Excel-class autonomous mode near 57% accuracy, arriving through an existing seat. No RFP, no halt.
Composite 16 = 4×3 + 4
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Pace rules: no irreversible action faster than a human can reconstruct it · A real off-ramp that still functions · Contract-first delegation with privilege attenuation · Duty of care on high-stakes delegates · Short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens for every tool call · Mandatory secret scanning before a skill can be listed · No shared tool state across agent sessions