An evaluation instrument, not a prescription.

T he rubric diagnoses. Each pillar holds a small number of criteria, scored on a 0–3 scale. Two is the realistic operational target for most criteria; three is the bar only where compounding learning is structurally possible.

1. Focus

Narrow the agent’s world to what matters; what remains is the right context.

2. Validation

Hard, deterministic rules that catch non-deterministic output.

3. Actions

The agent’s ability to act externally in the real world.

4. Safe Space

Blast-radius containment, so "going wrong" has bounded cost.

5. Workflow

The meta-layer that ties 1–4 together, including periodic and proactive loops.