The Strongest Agent Control Is Reversibility
Approval protects the moment of action. Reversibility protects what happens after. Classify agent work by whether you can undo it, and review earns a real target.
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Articles about human approval and its practical role in production agent work.
Approval protects the moment of action. Reversibility protects what happens after. Classify agent work by whether you can undo it, and review earns a real target.
A production agent needs more than a useful answer. It needs explicit execution boundaries, approval before consequential work, and evidence that survives the run.
A message can request agent work without being allowed to invent the user, channel, permissions, or actions behind that work.
The hidden cost of an agent pilot is not inference. It is the work required to know whether the system deserves more authority.
The choice is not full autonomy or manual control. Good operations give agents freedom inside clear, observable, consequence-aware boundaries.