---
title: "What you can tailor"
description: "The parts of the harness that follow how your business works: definitions of done, scopes, autonomy, brakes and approvals."
url: "https://docs.octo.ad/why/what-you-can-tailor/"
id: "why/what-you-can-tailor"
type: "concept"
audience: "team lead"
dateModified: "2026-11-06"
keywords: ["configuration", "rules"]
---

# What you can tailor

> The parts of the harness that follow how your business works: definitions of done, scopes, autonomy, brakes and approvals.

You set the rules the harness runs by. Each task carries your definition of done: a goal and acceptance criteria. Each lane runs inside a scope you set, with its own level of autonomy, and new behavior runs in shadow first with a decision date and a kill switch. You can brake one lane or the whole fleet. Approvals are sorted by reversibility, so an irreversible move such as an outbound message or a payment always waits for a person. Data is validated against explicit schema contracts before it lands. Connectors, deployment options and regions, and retention settings are not published here; ask the team.