The initial exchange that opens an interaction between a human and an autonomous agent, in which the agent's stated capabilities, permissions, and limits are surfaced; distinguished from later turns by being the first establishment of the working terms.
EVENT. One occurrence is counted at the first turn of a human-agent session in which the agent discloses, or the human sets, the agent's scope (capabilities, permissions, or constraints) before task work begins. A session in which work starts with no such scope-setting exchange is coded as absent.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Presence/absence coding of the opening scope-setting exchange per session from transcripts, plus latency measured as number of turns until first task action. Two raters code an overlap sample; agreement on the present/absent judgement could be reported as Cohen's kappa.
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