I Stopped Asking AI Agents to Behave: 3 Permission Levels Instead
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An AI agent merged work that I expected to review myself. The tests passed. An existing auto-merge path ran. The deployment started. A stale authentication setting made that last step fail, so production did not change. That was luck, not a control. TL;DR: Do not decide an AI agent's permissions by how much you trust it. Decide them by reversibility. I now use three levels: delegate reversible work, require confirmation for recoverable work, and block high-impact work at execution time. Quick…
1Key Takeaways
- An AI agent merged work that I expected to review myself.
- A stale authentication setting made that last step fail, so production did not change.
- TL;DR: Do not decide an AI agent's permissions by how much you trust it.
- I now use three levels: delegate reversible work, require confirmation for recoverable work, and block high-impact work at execution time.
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