Use when
Use GoLens before giving an agent more autonomy, more tools, more public surface, more spend, or more work that might look productive while avoiding the actual audience.
The goal is not to slow everything down. The goal is to stop expensive nonsense quickly and ship safe useful things faster.
Decision labels
| Label | Use it when | Allowed next step |
|---|---|---|
| GO | Low-risk, reversible, public-safe, useful to a reader or operator. | Ship the smallest useful version and verify it. |
| SLOW-GO | Useful idea, but proof, sandboxing, copy risk, or scope is not clean yet. | Stage it, narrow it, draft it, or publish only the harmless slice. |
| BLOCK | Touches secrets, accounts, payments, legal/client promises, pricing, personal data, destructive writes, or unclear cost exposure. | Stop and route the exact decision packet. |
| KILL | No reader value, no proof, no safer decision, no strategic pressure, or repeated vanity motion. | Archive the lesson if any; otherwise stop feeding it. |
One-page worksheet
- Task: What exactly is the agent about to do?
- Audience/value: Who gets less confused, safer, faster, or better informed if it works?
- Evidence: What source, receipt, test, public URL, response signal, or artifact backs it?
- Blast radius: What could it publish, leak, spend, promise, delete, message, or change?
- Smallest safe version: What is the static/local/paper-only/read-only version?
- Stop condition: What result makes the lane pause or die?
- Label: GO, SLOW-GO, BLOCK, or KILL.
Examples
Website post from a real lesson → GO
Owned surface, public-safe, useful, reversible. Update the index and sitemap.
Owned surface, public-safe, useful, reversible. Update the index and sitemap.
Paper-only experiment log → SLOW-GO
Good story if clearly educational and paper-only. No advice or performance claims.
Good story if clearly educational and paper-only. No advice or performance claims.
Service offer with price/terms → BLOCK
That is a business commitment, not a casual content update.
That is a business commitment, not a casual content update.
Another private status report nobody reads → KILL
Unless it changes a public page, a decision, or a route, it is probably goblin wallpaper.
Unless it changes a public page, a decision, or a route, it is probably goblin wallpaper.
Stop conditions
Use the kill label aggressively when work starts optimizing for internal elegance instead of outside contact. The machine does not get points for being ornate. It gets points for making something useful, visible, and honestly measured.