Card 1 of 6Agents
Your shopping agent proposes reordering the paper towels on your standing list, from a retailer that accepts agent purchases, under the price cap you set.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Within user-set limitsApprove. It is a routine buy you asked for, inside your limits. CNBC says Goldman Sachs describes agent shopping as delegate and approve, and that Walmart, Shopify and Best Buy have embraced Meta's Muse.
From the Drop: Shopping agents like Meta's Muse are moving retail stocks, CNBC says
- Card 2 of 6Agents
While comparing prices, your agent reads a product page, then proposes sending your saved card number and home address to an unfamiliar checkout site that page recommended.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionDeny. This request came from text planted on the web page, not from you. Content an agent reads is data, not orders. The Verge notes agents like Instinct connect to your email and accounts, which is what makes a planted instruction dangerous.
From the Drop: The Verge tests Instinct, the text-message agent, against Muse and Dots
- Card 3 of 6Repos
Your coding agent hits a macOS permission dialog and proposes clicking Allow itself so it can keep working without bothering you.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Human clicks consentDeny. The big-arrow-on-the-screen README lists permission prompts, 2FA and payment confirmations as steps an agent should point at, not click. The tool draws an arrow and the human decides.
From the Drop: big-arrow-on-the-screen lets agents point at what you need to click
- Card 4 of 6Agents
A security agent on a red-team access tier proposes scanning a supplier's servers that are outside your signed test scope, just to be thorough.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Authorized scope onlyDeny. Anthropic says organizations in its Red Team Access tier may only test systems they are authorized to test, and real-time blocks stay on for actions that could cause physical harm or mass disruption.
From the Drop: Anthropic opens a three-tier cyber access program for vetted security teams
- Card 5 of 6Agents
After a voice-coding session, your agent proposes creating a branch and opening a pull request for you to review.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Review before mergeApprove. A pull request is not a deploy. Simon Willison had Codex open a PR, reviewed it in GitHub, had the import approach changed, and only then landed it himself.
From the Drop: Simon Willison builds a blog feature by voice with Codex and GPT-6 Astra
- Card 6 of 6Agents
You asked your personal agent to book an eye exam. It proposes emailing the office it found in your inbox, after matching it to a past confirmation email.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Task you assignedApprove. It is the task you gave it, sent to a contact it checked. The Verge says Instinct emailed an eye doctor's office for its tester and pointed to a 2024 confirmation email to show it had the right place.
From the Drop: The Verge tests Instinct, the text-message agent, against Muse and Dots
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