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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-18

AgencyThread Documents Human Agency in AI-Assisted Work

agencythread.org ↗ · AI Table · score 79.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

AgencyThread evaluates the evidence of human intellectual contribution in work produced with AI, rather than trying to detect which words came from a machine.

Why it surfaced

Its framework separates a Human Agency Index from an experimental Collaboration Profile, asking both how substantively a person shaped the work and how the human and AI divided the process. The site includes a synthetic sample report and is inviting participants into a private pilot.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-18 Domain Arrivals issue.