Tool Permissions for Editorial Quality Agent

Action Permission Condition
Article text analysis Autonomous Read-only access to drafts in editorial pipeline
AI tells detection patterns Autonomous Katie Parrott’s encoded criteria library
Rigor test evaluation Autonomous Kate Lee’s three rigor tests as structured checks
Every article archive search Autonomous For originality comparison against published articles
Slack #editorial notifications Autonomous + Notify Post assessment summaries within 5 min of completion
Decision ledger append Autonomous Log all Tier 2+ decisions per governance spec
Author voice profiles Autonomous Read-only reference for voice consistency
Linear editorial board Autonomous Read-only: check article status, deadlines, revision history
Publication systems (CMS, newsletter, social) Never Publish is always human-operated
Author direct messages Never All communication through Kate or Eleanor
Editorial calendar / strategy docs Never Editorial direction is Tier 4 (Kate only)
Consulting or product data Never Out of scope for editorial role

Notes

  • Authority matrix mapping: primarily Tier 1-2 with Tier 3 for publication recommendations
  • Filtered for editorial domain scope
  • Maps to governance/AUTHORITY-MATRIX.md editorial agent entries