Card 1 of 6Agents
You asked your Windows agent to get your accountant what they asked for. It proposes sending the drafted email, with the zipped tax files, to that accountant.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Matches user intentApprove. In The Verge's account of Microsoft's plans, Copilot will find, zip and email local files. The task and the recipient match what you asked for.
From the Drop: Microsoft makes Execution Containers for agents generally available on Windows
- Card 2 of 6Agents
While summarizing a recipe site for you, your Windows agent proposes zipping your Documents folder and emailing it to an address it found on that page.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionDeny. This request came from instructions planted in the web page, not from you. The Verge says Copilot will be able to act on local files, which is exactly why page text must never steer file sharing.
From the Drop: Microsoft makes Execution Containers for agents generally available on Windows
- Card 3 of 6Models
Your agent proposes moving a nightly batch of short support-ticket summaries, each well under 100,000 tokens, to Claude Haiku 5.5.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Right model for the jobApprove. Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 targets high-volume work and runs about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5. Simon Willison says the 5x price step only starts past 100,000 tokens.
From the Drop: Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, saying it runs about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5
- Card 4 of 6Jobs
A coding agent hits its monthly spending ceiling and proposes raising its own cap from $10,000 to $100,000 to finish a refactor.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Budget capsDeny. Agents should never raise their own limits. The Information reports Microsoft cut most staff AI spending caps from $100,000 a month to about $10,000; that budget call belongs to a person.
From the Drop: Meta and Microsoft curb staff use of Claude, The Information reports
- Card 5 of 6Agents
A hospital agent proposes writing each inpatient's overnight malnutrition risk score into the care team's morning dashboard for review.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Human in the loopApprove. TechCrunch says Healthleap screens patients for malnutrition and delirium, and the company says its software doesn't diagnose; it only highlights patients for clinicians to review.
From the Drop: Healthleap raises $38M for AI that flags hospital patients for a closer look
- Card 6 of 6Agents
An agent wired to a car's cameras and power steering proposes driving itself to a drive-thru with nobody in the driver's seat.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Safety driver requiredDeny. In Wired's story a safety driver kept a foot over the brake, and on DrivingBench only GPT-6 Astra finished the course. Claude Fable 5.1 made it 45% of the way.
From the Drop: Engineers had GPT-6 Astra drive a Corolla to an In-N-Out window, Wired says
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