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Rollback Option [RBO]

Term code: AUG-0868 · Discipline: Agentic AI (AG) · Period: 3 · Language: en

Description

A property of a control architecture in which AI-initiated actions can be reversed to a prior state, characterised by the availability and coverage of undo or restore mechanisms across the system's actions; an affordance rather than a discrete event.

Operational definition

STATE. Operationalized as reversibility coverage: the proportion of the system's consequential action types for which a documented undo/restore path exists, scored 0-1 from the system specification. Optionally banded (none / partial / full). It indexes designed affordance, not how often undo is used.

Measurement schema

Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Specification audit enumerating consequential action types and checking each for a documented reversal path; reversibility coverage could be reported as the proportion reversible. Two auditors independently classify a sample; agreement on the per-action reversible/irreversible decision could be reported as Cohen's kappa.

Broader topic

https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-agentic-ai

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