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Claude stops when the work looks done. Turning that into more than a feeling takes four separate mechanisms: a check with a real oracle, a hook that cannot be argued with, a sandbox bounding the damage, and a human gate outside the loop.
Reliable delegation begins before the prompt: repositories need explicit contracts, reproducible environments, bounded authority, discriminating checks, and reviewable evidence.
Inference can be cheap while accepted software remains expensive; the correct denominator is valuable, reviewed change—not tokens, diffs, or agent hours.
The right Codex surface follows from where state lives, how quickly a human must steer, and which execution boundary can be reproduced and audited.