# Tess Administration

Configure agent/provider identities outside client input. Verify `/health/ready` and provider health before enabling interaction clients. Every interaction request requires an authenticated actor and correlation header; tenant and owner scope are server-derived. Do not log or return service credentials.

For an incident, preserve correlation IDs, inspect provider status and durable checkpoint/inbox/outbox state, then use the recovery endpoint. Do not retry an ambiguous external effect automatically. Stop operations require an exact one-time approval reference; provisioning or granting a broad admin capability does not replace that check.
