---
id: "quote-audit-before-automate"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:17:16"]
tags: ["best-practices", "deployment"]
related: ["action-audit-tribal-knowledge", "framework-agent-deployment-commandments"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
quote: "Audit before you automate. Commandment number one. Map the actual process, not the idealized one."
sources: ["s53-agent-100x-review-3x"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s53-agent-100x-review-3x"
originDay: 53
---
# Audit Before You Automate

## Quote

> *"Audit before you automate. Commandment number one. Map the actual process, not the idealized one."*
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Context

The speaker's pithy formulation of the **first commandment** in [[framework-agent-deployment-commandments]]. The actionable expansion is [[action-audit-tribal-knowledge]]. The emphasis on *"actual"* vs *"idealized"* process is the speaker's defense against the [[concept-mini-me-fallacy]].