MIR is useful when a task combines uncertain model behavior with durable state, external tools, meaningful authority, or long-running recovery. The explorer describes patterns rather than customer claims.
Evaluate each use case
- What can change outside the model response?
- Who has authority, and where must approval occur?
- What evidence would a user, operator, or auditor need?
Use-case explorer
Repository dependency update
Prepare, test, and review a bounded dependency change.
- Runtime components
- Repository context, code tool, isolated tests, checkpoint, approval, evidence.
- Risk
- Reversible write
- Approval
- Required before merge or deployment.
- Evidence
- Diff, dependency sources, test results, policy decision.
- Recovery
- Restore checkpoint, select compatible version, or stop.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use a standard dependency bot when policy and remediation are deterministic.
Policy-aware research brief
Synthesize approved internal and public sources.
- Runtime components
- Scoped retrieval, source provenance, model adapter, evidence ledger.
- Risk
- Read-only with sensitive context
- Approval
- Review before external distribution.
- Evidence
- Sources, exclusions, claims, uncertainty, final artifact.
- Recovery
- Remove stale source, rerun affected claims.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use search plus templates for narrow, repeatable questions.
Case preparation
Assemble a draft case package without making the final decision.
- Runtime components
- Identity, data policy, prohibited memory, typed tools, approval gates.
- Risk
- High-impact recommendation
- Approval
- Qualified human owns every consequential decision.
- Evidence
- Source record, policy checks, draft, reviewer actions.
- Recovery
- Suspend, correct data, invalidate derived artifacts.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use deterministic case management for fully codified rules.
Private project assistant
Work with local files and selectively use remote models.
- Runtime components
- Local control plane, local tools, hybrid routing, project memory.
- Risk
- Private data and reversible local writes
- Approval
- Required for external transmission or publishing.
- Evidence
- Data placement, model route, file changes, exports.
- Recovery
- Local checkpoint and offline continuation.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use desktop search when no multi-step action is required.
Multi-source technical review
Compare primary sources and identify open questions.
- Runtime components
- Research index, provenance, verifier, citation and evidence.
- Risk
- Incorrect synthesis
- Approval
- Editorial review before publication.
- Evidence
- Claim-to-source mapping, omitted claims, review date.
- Recovery
- Withdraw unsupported claim and regenerate affected section.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use a reference manager for straightforward literature collection.
Incident triage assistant
Collect signals, propose remediation, and stage reversible actions.
- Runtime components
- Telemetry, runbooks, read tools, draft actions, approval, rollback.
- Risk
- Service disruption
- Approval
- Required before production change.
- Evidence
- Signals, hypothesis, commands, approvals, outcome.
- Recovery
- Cancel, revert, escalate to incident commander.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use deterministic automation for known alerts and runbooks.
Governed analysis workspace
Prepare queries and analyses over scoped data.
- Runtime components
- Data identity, query tools, sandbox, budgets, artifact ledger.
- Risk
- Sensitive data exposure or expensive query
- Approval
- Needed for export or material write.
- Evidence
- Queries, datasets, transformations, results, exports.
- Recovery
- Cancel query, revoke session, remove derived artifact.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use BI dashboards for stable questions.
Shared agent execution service
Provide teams a common governed runtime.
- Runtime components
- Control plane, runtime profiles, registries, policy, observability.
- Risk
- Cross-tenant authority and platform-wide failure
- Approval
- Policy-based; human gates for high-impact classes.
- Evidence
- Tenant, contract versions, tool actions, incidents, artifacts.
- Recovery
- Isolate tenant, terminate runtime, roll back profile.
- Use a simpler system when…
- Use direct model APIs for low-risk isolated prototypes.
Use a simpler system when…
- A deterministic script or workflow can express the task reliably.
- The model only drafts text and cannot access external systems.
- There is no durable memory, multi-step state, or side effect.
- A bounded retrieval application with citations meets the need.
- The cost of runtime governance exceeds the value or risk of the task.
Source record
References
National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST. Published 2023-01-26; last reviewed 2026-06-20 UTC. Government framework.
- Agentic AI Threats and Mitigations Primary source
OWASP Agentic Security Initiative. OWASP. Published Current guidance; last reviewed 2026-06-20 UTC. Security guidance.