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Claude Partnership & Agent Authority – A-CX Weekly

A-CX has joined Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, with a look at where an AI agent’s authority runs out and Mix Sound for Film & TV coming up next week.

Claude Partner Network

We’re pleased to announce that A-CX has joined Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network. Membership gives us direct access to Anthropic’s technical support and training resources, plus priority access to new certifications as they are introduced. Read the announcement.

Agent Authority Limits

Ilpo has been writing about the three doors an AI agent cannot open on its own. An agent may not pick up work without observable acceptance criteria, file a finding outside a fixed set of consequences, or judge its own work complete at closing time. Read his argument.

Upcoming Events

Next week A-CX will be at Mix Sound for Film & TV 2026: AI & Sound, on September 26 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. Ville Houttu will be asking the engineers and mixers who work with AI-assisted and spatial audio daily what is working and what is not. If you will be on the lot, see the details and book time with us.

AI Governance Page

A-CX has been hard at work on the AI governance page, which makes the case that shadow AI is already running inside most companies. A-CX AI Nexus answers it with one console covering every tool, model, and integration, installed in your own cloud rather than ours. Read the page.

What We've Been Reading

Running agents in the cloud usually means building your own harness for sessions, orchestration, and context, as described in this documentation by OpenAI for its Agents API, which manages that harness so your application supplies only the tools and the execution environment.

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