TL; DR: The AI Delegation LifecycleYour team ships AI outputs that nobody fully trusts; you needed to be quick, and “dirty” tagged along. Too bad that ungoverned automation becomes AI debt when a stakeholder asks who owns it. But do not despair: The AI Delegation Lifecycle turns skills you already use into six decisions you can apply this week to govern that work and prove it audit-ready and suited for agent harnesses.Popular Traps When Creating AI OutputAll teams can show you what their AI produces: status reports sent without anyone touching them, release notes drafted in seconds, a customer-facing FAQ that updates itself. Far fewer teams can answer the question posed by a prospective customer or by compliance: how do you govern your own internal AI use? Often, in the frenzy past to make of AI, nobody decided.