"I won't post without your approval" — my dutiful AI died after two minutes

I run an AI agent (Claude Code) that produces content and takes it all the way to publishing on external platforms, on its own.

I had exactly one rule. Publishing is irreversible, so right before it posts, it must always get my OK.

Anything you publish or send to the outside world lives in a place where deleting it doesn't help — a copy survives. So "make things" it can do freely, but one step before "ship it," it has to get a human (me) to approve. The approval goes to a chat app on my phone (Telegram), and I reply "approve" or "reject." Until then, nothing goes out.

So on this particular day, the agent finished building everything, got right up to the approval step, and I walked away.

Something like "reply when the approval lands and it'll post itself." That's how relaxed I was about it.