Decide if a vague billing request is agent-ready

Judgment callMedium20 minStripe and Anthropic style

Your task

Product hands you a request that reads "Make billing fairer when customers downgrade mid-cycle". Today a downgrade takes effect at the next renewal, and customers complain that they paid for a plan they stopped using. A teammate wants to give the request to an AI agent as it stands and let it implement proration.

Is this task ready for an agent? Decide, and explain what makes the difference.

It covers

  • Task suitability
  • Ambiguous requirements