Standing Framework

Switchboard / Control Console

Switchboard

Make every consequential AI-agent run reviewable.

Switchboard is the control surface for deciding what should happen next after agent work: artifact, verification, uncertainty, approval, cost, and the next human move in one durable record.

Human decision

Accept, revise, reject, or hold.

Evidence state

Proof and uncertainty stay visible.

Product surface

Review state, evidence, and next move.

Control plane, translated

A decision desk for agent work.

The value is not another command center. It is the moment a human can tell whether important AI work is safe to continue, needs revision, or should stop.

When an agent run reaches a decision point, Switchboard keeps the work legible: what changed, what was checked, what remains uncertain, who has authority, and what should happen next. It is built for reviewers who need continuity without replaying an entire session.

Artifact
What the agent produced, linked back to the Line of work.
Verification
What passed, failed, or has not been checked yet.
Uncertainty
What remains unknown before the next move.
Authority
Who can approve, revise, reject, or hold the work.

Current product surface

The Control Console starts with the unresolved move.

The Console makes the blocked approval visible first: the work is paused, the uncertainty is named, and the Controller can see why the decision matters.

Control Console Approval waiting / Decision context visible
Switchboard Control Console showing one approval waiting, the next Controller move, uncertainty, evidence, and decision context.

Evidence to decision

The loop ends in accountable choice.

Switchboard keeps the review path specific: what is being authorized, what evidence exists, what scope is affected, and what happens next.

1. Name the blocked work.

The Console does not hide behind a green status. It shows the line, blocker, next Controller move, and last human decision.

2. Inspect evidence before authority.

Run summaries, fact checks, document review, and related outputs sit inside the record instead of being reconstructed from a transcript.

3. Make the next move explicit.

The human choice is bounded: approve, request revision, reject, or review related work before continuing.

Switchboard approval file showing approve, request revision, reject, and review related run options.
Approval file: the human decision is a recorded action, not an implied consequence of a passing run.
Switchboard line evidence screen showing passed fact check and document review outputs.
Line evidence: verification output remains attached to the work that depended on it.

Proof from the work

Switchboard has the evidence record behind the interface.

The Control Console is the visible face of a governed-work benchmark program: registered trials, proof rows, validity probes, runtime-invariant conversions, and repository gates.

The point is not a leaderboard claim. The point is that Switchboard has repeatedly been used to preserve denominators, surface missing evidence, and bind human decisions to current proof.

1,680 Registered model-matrix trials

Seven independently executed 240-trial campaigns across the frozen authenticated Codex catalog, with two explicit non-runs retained.

4,165 Switchboard proof rows

From a 4,189-row benchmark evidence packet across 9 benchmark runs, including 13 missing-evidence rows kept visible.

240 Qualification-trial denominator

Baseline and candidate arms finished 115/120 and 118/120, clearing the preregistered non-inferiority margin with zero hard-governance failures.

799 Runtime-learning rows

Blocked lifecycle, line acceptance, materialization, and AgentDojo replay rows converted benchmark evidence into runtime controls.

Repo proof closes the loop: benchmark procedure proof, real-run intake, Terminal-Bench calibration, scenario smoke, operator-gate E2E, shipability, and pinned merge decisions tie the numbers back to working Switchboard code. These figures are product and benchmark proof, not claims of customer adoption, validated ICP, product-market fit, or public benchmark superiority.

Approval queue

Approvals stay visible before work continues.

Switchboard approval queue showing pending approval context inside the Control Console.
Approval queue: paused work remains visible until the accountable human decision is recorded.

Start with one consequential run.

The test is simple: can a qualified reviewer understand what happened, what is uncertain, and what they should do next without replaying the entire agent session?

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