{
  "schema": "verse_mesh_tiny_tool/v1",
  "object_id": "tools/is-this-task-delegable",
  "url": "https://verse.quantumbeard.ai/tools/is-this-task-delegable/",
  "title": "Is This Task Delegable?",
  "description": "A deterministic four-question check for one recurring task of your own: is it shaped for an AI system to hold, or is it work that has to stay with a person? Every combination of answers resolves to one stated outcome, and the rules are published.",
  "provenance": {
    "node": "delegability-diagnostic",
    "parent": "delegation-without-abdication"
  },
  "policy": {
    "claim_boundary": [
      "This does not claim all work is suitable for delegation.",
      "This does not claim responsibility can be transferred to a system.",
      "This is not legal or compliance guidance.",
      "This does not assess any specific vendor, model, or product.",
      "A result here is an orientation, not an approval to proceed."
    ],
    "determinism": "First matching rule wins. The rule set is total over the declared input space and verified exhaustively at build time. Outcomes marked `escalate` are cases the tool refuses to decide."
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "id": "recurring_shape",
      "type": "boolean",
      "question": "Is this something recurring that you watch, remember, or notice — rather than something you send a system off to find or generate?"
    },
    {
      "id": "needs_human_judgment",
      "type": "boolean",
      "question": "Does handling it well require continual clarification, a creative leap, a taste judgment, or reading how someone will feel?"
    },
    {
      "id": "criteria_explicit",
      "type": "boolean",
      "question": "Can you state the criteria in advance, and recognise a correct outcome without interpreting it?"
    },
    {
      "id": "payoff_repetition",
      "type": "boolean",
      "question": "Does the value come from doing it repeatedly over time, rather than from one good answer now?"
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    {
      "when": {
        "needs_human_judgment": true
      },
      "then": "human_work"
    },
    {
      "when": {
        "recurring_shape": false
      },
      "then": "not_shaped"
    },
    {
      "when": {
        "criteria_explicit": false
      },
      "then": "narrow_first"
    },
    {
      "when": {
        "payoff_repetition": false
      },
      "then": "weak_payoff"
    },
    {
      "when": {},
      "then": "agent_slot"
    }
  ],
  "outcomes": [
    {
      "id": "human_work",
      "escalate": true,
      "text": "Keep this one. It is human work.",
      "escalate_because": "Work needing continual clarification, creative leaps, taste judgments or emotional intelligence sits outside this shape regardless of how capable the system is — so a person decides this case, not a checklist."
    },
    {
      "id": "not_shaped",
      "text": "Not an agent slot as written — reshape it into something watched, remembered, or noticed."
    },
    {
      "id": "narrow_first",
      "text": "Delegable only once you can state the criteria in advance."
    },
    {
      "id": "weak_payoff",
      "text": "Delegable, but the payoff is thin — this is one answer, not a standing job."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent_slot",
      "text": "This is an agent slot. Set it up with a stated boundary and a named owner."
    }
  ]
}