Scope Tracking
Nobody sends an email saying “I would like to expand the scope.” They say “quick one — can we also get a version for Instagram?” And you say yes, because it is quick, and because saying no to a quick one feels petty. Then it happens again. By week six you are forty hours over on a fixed-fee project and the only options left are eating it or having an awkward conversation about work you already delivered.
Skynet watches the boundary for you. It holds the signed scope in memory and reads incoming requests against it, flagging out-of-scope asks while they are still asks — before you have done the work and lost your leverage. It proposes; you decide whether to absorb it, bill it, or push back.
How it works
Anchor the agent to the signed scope
Connect the proposal or SOW you actually agreed to. That document becomes the baseline: deliverable counts, round limits, what is explicitly excluded. Everything is measured against it.
Read every request against the line
As requests arrive in email or Slack, the agent checks them against the baseline and classifies each one: in scope, out of scope, or ambiguous. Ambiguous is a real category, and it gets sent to you rather than guessed at.
Flag drift while it is still cheap
When something falls outside, you hear about it before you start. The agent quotes the request and the relevant scope line side by side, so the decision takes ten seconds.
Draft the change order
If you decide to bill it, the agent drafts the change note: what was requested, why it is additional, what it costs, what it does to the timeline. You approve it and it goes out while the request is still fresh.
Build it from a prompt
Set the boundary once and let the agent hold it.
The result is not a harder relationship with the client — usually the opposite. Asks get answered honestly and early, the project stays profitable, and you never have the retroactive conversation about work you already gave away.