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Autonomous AI

AI systems that make decisions and take actions without per-step human input.

What is Autonomous AI?

Autonomous AI describes systems where AI agents plan, decide, and act with minimal human input. Production-grade autonomous AI requires governance, audit trails, policy enforcement, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints at high-stakes decisions. Unbounded autonomy is dangerous; supervised autonomy — provided by an operations fabric like LeafMesh — is what enterprises deploy.

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LeafMesh ADK is the production runtime for the concepts defined here.