OSIO treats AI models, agents and other execution systems as executors: systems that may reason about or perform bounded parts of work. They can help move work forward, but they do not own canonical organisational truth.
The distinction is:
- Organisation — the business and people on whose behalf work is carried out.
- Work — the durable responsibility and intended outcome the organisation is tracking.
- Executor — a system assigned to perform a bounded part of that work.
- Model or provider — a technology an executor may use to interpret information or produce an output.
An agent is one possible kind of executor. It may use a model and follow a process, but an agent’s current context is not the organisation’s authoritative record. A model can provide an answer or recommendation; that output does not itself establish responsibility, grant authority or prove an external outcome.
Replaceable execution
OSIO’s architecture is designed so that Work, responsibility and organisational state can remain coherent when the executor changes. A new executor should be able to continue from the relevant organisational context, rather than depending on the previous model session or process still existing.
This is a design principle, not a claim that every executor can be connected or replaced by a customer today. OSIO is being built with its own agents first. Support for bringing externally supplied agents is planned for later; arbitrary third-party agents, runtimes or providers should not be assumed to be currently supported.
The executor does not set its own authority
Technical capability and organisational permission are different. An executor may be able to prepare or attempt an action, but it should act only within the authority and policy that apply to the work. When a decision exceeds those bounds, the work should wait for human judgement rather than treating the executor’s ability as permission.