What is Override?
Override — Authorized intervention over an agent's action, the sanctioned ability for a trusted party to stop or change it.
Override is the primitive that answers who can step in? Autonomous systems need a defined path for a trusted party to interrupt or correct them.
It is the layer that keeps autonomy accountable. An override is not a failure of the agent. It is the controlled exception the system is designed to allow.
Where override sits in the stack
In the four-layer architecture of the agentic web, override is a Cross-cutting concept — it applies across every layer of the stack. See the thesis for how the layers compound.
Override in the portfolio
8 positions in the Semantic Substrate portfolio carry the Override primitive — 6 available individually, 2 held as a coordinated set. Explore the Override cluster →
Quick answers
- What is Override in agentic systems?
- Authorized intervention over an agent's action, the sanctioned ability for a trusted party to stop or change it.
- Where does Override sit in the agentic stack?
- Override sits at the Cross-cutting layer — it applies across every layer of the stack.
- How many Override domain positions exist in the Semantic Substrate portfolio?
- 8 positions carry the Override primitive — 6 available individually, the rest held as a coordinated set.