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  _Safety nets_ are the practices in **Compound Engineering** that let you adopt
  AI-native workflows at a level of trust you choose — catching mistakes in the
  plan–work–review loop so a failure in one unit of work doesn't carry into the
  next.
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# \_safety nets\_

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## Definition

_Safety nets_ are the practices in **Compound Engineering** that let you adopt AI-native workflows at a level of trust you choose — catching mistakes in the plan–work–review loop so a failure in one unit of work doesn't carry into the next.

In this channel's material on **Compound Engineering**, _safety nets_ describe the practices that make it possible to adopt AI-native workflows **at the right level of trust** for your own work. Rather than handing work to agents all at once, you build up catch mechanisms — reviews, plans, and knowledge capture — so that a mistake in any single unit of work is caught before it compounds[^08532e97@0].The methodology's core promise is that every unit of work makes the next one easier. Safety nets are what protect that promise: they give you the confidence to let agents handle more over time, because each stage of the loop — plan, work, review — is backed by something that catches errors and feeds what happened back into your accumulated knowledge[^08532e97@0].- _Safety nets_ = the trust-building practices that let you adopt Compound Engineering incrementally.- They sit inside the plan–work–review loop, catching mistakes so they don't compound.- As your maturity grows, you can lean on them less heavily — but you choose the level of trust yourself.