ensuring policies, evidence, and controls remain current. Human judgment remains essential where risk must be accepted explicitly, anomalies emerge, or repeated issues indicate that guardrails or governance need to be redesigned. As automation becomes execution, the question is no longer "How much can we digitize?" but "what can run autonomously under guardrails, and how fast do exceptions get resolved?" Autonomy expands only where access rights, controls, and auditability are production-grade.