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AUTOMATION-GUARDRAILS5 MIN READ

Pause the Payroll Bot

Choose the safest first move when an automation run shows a high-severity failure mode.

Payroll run is queued; a routing-data anomaly appeared after the approval file loaded. What is Maya's safest first move? Pause the run, preserve the alert evidence, and release only a verified limited batch if payroll timing requires it. Correct. This combines human override, monitoring evidence, and blast-radius control. It protects employees while preserving a path to continuity. Let the bot finish because payroll has a fixed deadline, then reconcile any bad payments after the file is submitted. This treats reconciliation as a guardrail, but the harm has already left the system. FMEA puts severe, hard-to-reverse effects ahead of schedule pressure.…

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