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Five Levels of Agent-Reshaped Enterprise Process: Hong Yanqing on Beijing's Agent Measures (Part 3 of 4)
Part 3 of Hong Yanqing's commentary on the Several Measures of Beijing Municipality on Accelerating Agent-Led Development (北京市关于加快智能体引领发展的若干措施, 京发改〔2026〕1185号). Article 3 of the Measures calls on enterprises to 'restructure core business processes' around agents — but using an agent and having processes reshaped by agents are different things. Hong proposes a five-level maturity scale: (1) tool assistance — the person stays in the process, the agent stays outside it; (2) step embedding — the agent enters positions and single workflow nodes inside existing software; (3) bounded closed loop — the agent independently completes a bounded task with its own identity, scoped permissions, and human approval at defined checkpoints, the stage where Part 2's security governance becomes a production precondition and where value-based billing first becomes realistic; (4) end-to-end orchestration — the agent coordinates multiple systems, departments, and roles around a complete business outcome, forcing enterprises to name end-to-end process owners and re-align departmental KPIs; (5) native restructuring — the enterprise redesigns processes, organization, and business model around a new human-agent division of labor, the level that OPCs, Results-as-a-Service, and AI-native software presuppose. Maturity is measured by how much process responsibility changed — task units, data and system permissions, the human role, evaluation units, organizational accountability — not by agent count, automation rate, or architectural complexity; different processes have different legitimate endpoints, and high-risk decisions may properly keep a human decision-maker forever. He closes by mapping each of the ten articles to the levels it serves and proposing that Beijing's scenario lists, funding, and security requirements be allocated by target maturity level.