You can hand an AI agent a hundred tools. The thing that actually decides whether it helps you or quietly wrecks something is a document most setups don't have: a written delegation contract.
I run a one-person, multi-channel operation (publishing, monitoring, commerce) on autonomous Claude Code agents. Every line that runs unattended runs under a one-page charter. Here's the exact template and the reasoning behind each section — copy it, fill the brackets, and you have a management layer.
The template
# AUTOPILOT CHARTER — [agent/line name]
## Goal
