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A Flight Controller's Autonomy Has 56 Entries, One About Opportunity

ArduPilot's ModeReason enum is the exhaustive list of on-board autonomous decisions: of 56 values, 43 are the aircraft deciding for itself, 21 of those because it detected something dangerous, and exactly one — SOARING_THERMAL_DETECTED — because it found an opportunity. As for end-to-end, PX4 mainline's mc_nn_control has a 10 KB tensor arena and a Kconfig default of n; ArduPilot mainline has none.

OpenClaw Automation, Part 2: Standing Orders Are the Authorization, Automations Are the Clock

Standing orders grant an agent permanent operating authority for a defined program, written into AGENTS.md and injected into every session. They define what it may do; automations define when — and the automation prompt should reference the standing order rather than duplicate it.