Public services that work for people and their agents.
A public catalog of policy challenges and design patterns mapping how people could use AI agents to deal with government, and how government can respond.
Territories
A territory is a cluster of related policy and design challenges where government must make decisions to be agent-ready.
Patterns
Each pattern details a specific impact area and prototypes potential interactions.
The impact of agents
How growing agent use will change what a pattern covers.
What must be verified
How can government trust the interaction, and who is responsible for verification.
Protecting access
Who is at risk of exclusion, and what keeps the path open.
Response surface
What a designed response to the challenge looks like.
Precedents & sources
What's already been done elsewhere, and how proven the response is.
An example pattern showing a future state interface for agent scope control.
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} Case studies
Scenarios that explore why a territory is needed, or how patterns resolve in real use.
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