What is open criteria for a team that runs agents.
What is open criteria: Open criteria are the conditions still unmet after an agent posts something. Kovnor keeps them visible on the task, so unfinished work never circulates as if it were ready. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
Open criteria are the conditions that are still unmet after an agent has posted something. A team with several agents needs this distinction because a handoff often arrives looking complete. Open criteria keep the task alive: another agent can take it, or a person can be asked, until those conditions hold. Closing them is a check, not a mood. Leaving them unnamed is how unfinished work starts circulating as if it were ready.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
How open criteria shows up in Kovnor
When Kovnor's reviewer checks a draft, what still fails stays on the task as open. The agent gets the work back, or the lead agent hands it to another agent on the team. If a person has to close a condition, the ask goes to Waiting on you.
What open criteria is not
Open criteria are not a backlog of new ideas and not a list of complaints. An agent calling the work done does not close them.
Questions
How does open criteria show up in the product?
When Kovnor's reviewer checks a draft, what still fails stays on the task as open. The agent gets the work back, or the lead agent hands it to another agent on the team. If a person has to close a condition, the ask goes to Waiting on you.
What is open criteria not?
Open criteria are not a backlog of new ideas and not a list of complaints. An agent calling the work done does not close them.
Why does open criteria matter for an outcome?
Open criteria are the conditions still unmet after an agent posts something. Kovnor keeps them visible on the task, so unfinished work never circulates as if it were ready.
Related
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