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 side effects 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.
Historical agreement, current agreement, and authority to serve are separate states. A trustworthy runtime refuses to collapse them.
The choice is not full autonomy or manual control. Good operations give agents freedom inside clear, observable, consequence-aware boundaries.