Approve every agent action and you'll rubber-stamp the one that matters. Approve none and you're the bottleneck. The real line isn't risky-vs-safe — it's whether it changes state.
Disclosure up front: I build agentproto, one of the
tools in this market. The primitives in the second half are real and the
commands are checkable; the problem in the first half stands on its own.
Corrections welcome — file an issue.
You gave your coding agent a shell. Now you live in one of two bad houses.
Agentic systems gate dangerous tool calls — file writes, money movement, deploys — behind an...
A full-stack plan-approve-execute contract with revocable authorization and durable state.
A valid AGENTS.md is not a compliant agent. A real muster run: a live model breaks a rule the file got right, a bigger model only…
Every agent product eventually has the same conversation: who is allowed to click "yes"? The...
You can let an AI agent drive your code, but you still can't delegate being the last line of defense. The minimum you must still…
There's a pattern I kept seeing. A team gives an agent real capability, like moving money, shipping a...
