Safety & GovernanceFebruary 14, 202617 min read
Responsibility Distribution in Multi-Agent Teams: Operational Allocation Without Accountability Blind Spots
Treat responsibility as a routing budget for execution, review, and exception handling
When several agents touch one decision, responsibility should be allocated explicitly rather than left implicit in logs or job titles. This article defines a practical responsibility vector for execution, review, approval, and human override. The goal is not to encode legal liability into a formula, but to prevent operational gaps where nobody owns the next action, the next check, or the next escalation.
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