Your Agent Wants to Send Money Without Approval
Apply the excessive-agency principle to choose the right approval model for irreversible actions.
VENDOR OPS AGENT An invoice-processing agent can read documents and trigger payment in the ERP when it thinks the invoice is legitimate. Which operating model is strongest? Let the agent gather evidence and draft a payment recommendation, but require a policy or human gate before money moves. Strong. It preserves automation where the model is useful and adds control at the irreversible step where blast radius is high. Allow the agent to pay automatically whenever its confidence score exceeds a fixed threshold. Weak. Confidence is not a security boundary, especially when the model can be manipulated by hostile content or…
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