Personal & industrial autonomy is Manna's continuing work for individuals and plant teams, so that work moves inside limits they set and waits for them where the mandate ends.
Agents succeed less often when the same task must succeed every time, and people over-trust automation most when they are busy. Manna therefore works inside a written mandate, holds what lies outside it for a person, and records enough to recover after an interruption.
A personal project and an industrial process need different mandates.
Continuing work becomes useful when its authority fits the setting.
Personal
Carry an objective across sessions, observe relevant sources and prepare the next useful step for a person.
Industrial
Coordinate a process under specified equipment, resource, intervention and recovery responsibilities.
Make interruption part of the design.
A bounded autonomous workflow must retain enough state for a responsible continuation.
State the objective
Define success, resources and the permitted operating conditions.
Separate observation and effect
A changing signal can influence a proposal; action still follows the mandate.
Recover deliberately
Retain effect identity, outstanding obligations and the situations requiring human intervention.
How far may the line run on its own overnight?
A plant manager sets the overnight mandate; the process works inside it and holds anything outside it for a person. Illustrative, with a synthetic Plant 2.
1 of 5The plant manager sets the overnight mandate for Plant 2: the batch range, the materials the line may draw and the conditions that stop it.Decision: The plant manager sets the mandate.
2 of 5Line readings arrive, and each proposed next batch is checked against the mandate before the line acts.
3 of 5Inside the mandate the next batch runs, and the operating memory records what was decided and on which readings.
4 of 5A reading drifts outside the range. The proposed change waits for the morning shift.
5 of 5In the morning the plant manager reads the held change with the readings behind it and decides.Decision: Approve or refuse the held change.
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1 of 4A power dip stops Plant 2 in the middle of a batch.
2 of 4On restart, the effect record shows which steps completed, so none of them runs twice.
3 of 4One step's result is uncertain, so it waits for the plant manager with the readings from before the dip.Decision: Repeat, skip or inspect the uncertain step.
4 of 4With the manager's choice recorded, the line resumes inside the same mandate.
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Systems behind it
What Personal & industrial autonomy is built from.
One continuing task with known inputs, bounded actions, explicit stop conditions and a recovery exercise. Evaluate task outcomes and interventions before widening the mandate.
