// automation levels

How automated
can it be?

Very automated for safe routine work. Deliberately gated for actions that can cost money, break production, leak data or expose local machines.

L0

Manual

Forgewarden drafts plans and you execute. Nothing moves without your hands on it.

Human
L1

Assisted

Generated commands, files, reports and checklists — run only with your approval.

Approve
L2

Routine

Scheduled scans, health checks, summaries and issue creation. Safe, reversible, automatic.

Auto
L3

Tool-using

Cloudflare, GitHub, D1 and Telegram actions under scoped permissions — no global keys, ever.

Scoped
L4

Autonomous

Agents maintain services, retry failures and escalate anomalies to a human.

Ops
L5

Self-management

Only for bounded systems with rollback paths and explicit written policies.

Gated

Auto by default

  • Uptime monitoring
  • Workflow checks
  • Secret scans
  • Dependency warnings
  • Lead intake
  • Brief creation
  • Proposal drafts
  • Audit reports
  • GitHub issue management

Always asks first

  • DNS changes
  • Nameserver modifications
  • Email / MX updates
  • Billing-impacting Cloudflare resources
  • Deleting databases, buckets or Workers
  • Git history rewrites
  • Exposing local services

Pick your comfort level

The Build Lab lets you choose exactly how much autonomy your agent gets — and what always stays behind the gate.

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