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Specifying the Delegated-Autonomy Boundary: Requirements Engineering for Agentic AI

规约委托自主边界:面向智能体 AI 的需求工程
ASE Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering2026引用 0 inbox
Chetan Arora, Andreas Vogelsang, Abbi Sharma
crossref: 2026-10-09

AI 速览

一句话:提出 AJR 与 ADP 两类需求制品,明确智能体 AI 的委托自主边界、分级授权与监督回收。

智能体 AI 不仅预测或推荐,还会规划、维护状态并在外部环境中以不同自主度行动,由此引入一个尚未充分处理的需求工程问题——委托自主边界:哪些决策可委托给系统、授予何种分级权限、如何监督以及如何收回控制。现有实践将这些需求级承诺埋藏在提示、工具模式和运行时策略中。本文提出两个互补制品:Agency Justification Record (AJR) 帮助判断何时智能体优于更简单方案;Agentic Delegation Policy (ADP) 规约目的、权限、信息、协调、保证与演化,并将权限建模为分层结构。论文用安全关键型医院出院协调智能体和自动代码审查智能体两个对比案例说明框架。

问题
智能体 AI 的规划与外部行动把委托什么、授权程度、监督和收回控制等需求级决策隐藏在提示、工具模式和运行时策略中,缺乏系统规约。
方法
提出 AJR 与 ADP 两个互补制品:AJR 判断何时应使用智能体而非更简单方案;ADP 规约目的、权限、信息、协调、保证和演化,并将权限建模为分级结构。
评估
通过安全关键型医院出院协调智能体与自动代码审查智能体两个对比案例进行示例说明,未报告实证评估。
原文摘要(Abstract)

Agentic AI systems do not just predict or recommend; they plan, maintain state, and act in external environments with varying degrees of autonomy. This changes the requirements engineering problem in a specific and under-addressed way: it introduces what we call the delegated-autonomy boundary - the set of decisions about what may be delegated to the system, under what graduated authority, with what oversight, and how control is returned. Current practices bury these decisions inside prompts, tool schemas, and runtime policies, even though they are requirements-level commitments. This paper proposes two complementary artifacts. First, an Agency Justification Record (AJR) helps teams decide when an agent is warranted over simpler alternatives. Second, an Agentic Delegation Policy (ADP) captures what must be specified for safe and effective development: purpose, authority, information, coordination, assurance, and evolution. Crucially, authority in the ADP is modelled as graduated, i.e., a tiered structure. We illustrate the framework with two contrasting examples: a safety-critical hospital discharge coordination agent and an automated code review agent.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{abs-2607-17225,
  title = {Specifying the Delegated-Autonomy Boundary: Requirements Engineering for Agentic AI},
  author = {Chetan Arora and Andreas Vogelsang and Abbi Sharma},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3832783.3834551}
}