Canonical reading experience
The Worker Manual
Read the complete article with the operating contract, evidence model, performance scorecard, promotion model, annotations, and references.
Read the Worker ManualStop Prompting Agents. Start Managing Workers.
SharePlane · One article · Three interfaces
Stop Prompting Agents. Start Managing Workers.Choose the interface that matches the job
One argument. Three ways to use it.
The Worker Manual is the complete canonical article. Worker and Machine separates management from containment. The Promotion Ladder turns earned autonomy into a staged operating model. Each opens as a complete full-page route.
Split teaching view
Worker and Machine
Manage the work through role, training, supervision, and trust. Control the system through access, constraints, validation, reversibility, and containment.
Open Worker and MachineMaturity view
The Promotion Ladder
Move from Prompt Box to Promoted Agent only as evidence, discipline, bounded authority, and reversibility become stronger.
Open the Promotion LadderEvidence posture. The canonical manual includes a dated public source register and visible references for current architecture, risk, evaluation, accountability, and capability statements. Tony Malott's thesis, worker metaphor, checklist, scorecard, and promotion model remain owner-authored operating synthesis.