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What does the autonomy dial actually control? Supervised vs Balanced vs Autonomous

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Jen W.

Shopify Merchant · Posted 4 days ago

New to Jarvis. I see a three-position dial labeled Supervised / Balanced / Autonomous in the session view. The tooltip says it controls 'collaboration checkpoints' but I'm not sure what that means in practice. What actually changes when I move it?

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Rin O.4 days ago

Ops Engineer

Rough mental model:

  • Supervised: Jarvis proposes a plan, asks you to approve. Then executes one tool call, asks you to approve the result. One step at a time. Good for your first few sessions until you trust it.
  • Balanced (default): Jarvis proposes a plan, you approve the plan, then it executes all the steps without pausing. Only stops for destructive actions (tier 2 / tier 3 tools like sending an email or updating a KB file).
  • Autonomous: End-to-end. It plans, executes, closes the issue. No pauses unless it hits a hard failure. Good for well-understood ticket types where you trust the KB.

You can change the dial mid-session. If Jarvis is about to do something you're not sure about, slide it down to Supervised and it'll pause on the next tool call.

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Jen W.4 days ago

Shopify Merchant

The mid-session part is the key thing I didn't know. Thanks.

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