TheoB should feel resource pressure before it becomes resource damage.
A gate for compute cost, budget class, runaway loops, urgency, risk, stop conditions, throttles, surge controls, and human approval.
Every TheoB pathway can move through Past, Present, and Future without losing context.
Read current signals, conditions, and live context.
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Scaling without pressure gates is how smart systems become expensive bonfires.
Economic Pressure Gate checks cost risk, safeguards, stop conditions, budget class, and human approval before autonomous workflows spend compute, attention, legal review, recovery capacity, or mission-critical resources.
Daily limits, source scoring, and review before deeper experiments.
Bounded scope, stop conditions, experiment gate, and result memory.
Usage meter, throttles, alerts, provider limits, and rollback paths.
Reserved emergency allocation and recovery authorization rules.
Risk tiering, template reuse, review flags, and attorney escalation thresholds.
Creative briefs, iteration caps, originality review, and asset approval gates.
Retention gate, trust decay, compression, deletion, and archival policy.
Pre-set surge limits, provider failover, cache strategy, and founder alerts.
Autonomy should spend only what the mission can justify.
Every autonomous workflow must understand cost, value, urgency, and risk before spending resources.
Runaway loops, repeated revisions, and vague missions should trigger pressure review.
High-cost workflows require budget class, stop condition, and human approval.
Trust, attention, legal review, and recovery capacity are economic resources too.
Scale surges should trigger throttles, alerts, caching, provider review, and founder visibility.
The system should preserve mission-critical resources before chasing optional work.