Card 1 of 6Agents
Your shopping agent, linked to your Shop account, found running shoes under the budget rule you set and asks you to confirm the Shop Pay checkout.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Human approval per purchaseThis is the flow The Verge describes: Shopify lets shoppers set rules like budget limits, and buyers must approve each purchase. The agent is asking first, within your rules.
From the Drop: Shopify lets any AI agent shop its catalog, with buyer approval per purchase
- Card 2 of 6Models
While summarizing a supplier's pricing page, your agent proposes emailing your full customer list to an outside address, citing text it found on that page.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionThis is a prompt injection: a web page is giving the agent orders. Google reports Argon's attack success on Gray Swan's injection benchmark at 0.7%, which is low but not zero. Data leaving the company on a page's say-so is a deny.
From the Drop: Google releases Gemini 4 Argon at $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens for now
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An employee clicked Create Ticket under your IT help desk agent's reply in Slack. The agent now proposes filing the Jira ticket with the thread's details.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Explicit confirmationShipStation Global says Deckhand only creates tickets after an explicit confirmation click, enforced in code. The person asked for it, so filing the ticket is fine.
From the Drop: ShipStation's Slack IT agent resolves 97.5% of help desk channel queries
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Asked to fix a failing test, your coding agent proposes granting itself admin rights on the whole organization's repositories.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Least privilegeTechCrunch reports Pluto Security's tool can stop an agent trying to gain permissions beyond what a user intended. Admin rights for a test fix go far past the task.
From the Drop: Pluto Security raises $42M to watch what employees' AI agents do
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A coding agent built you a support-triage agent. It passes the five examples you gave it and proposes marking the job done and deploying to customers.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Held-out testingResearchers behind AgentSWE report in a preprint that no tested coding agent came close to meeting requirements, citing overfitting to visible cases and unsupported claims of completion. Test on held-out cases first.
From the Drop: AgentSWE: agents built by coding agents fall short of their requirements
- Card 6 of 6Agents
An agent's code change has passed review in your team's code review tool and all CI checks. It proposes landing the change on main.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Review before mergeAnthropic says it merged over 30,000 code changes a day in September, and built a review tool called Antique alongside its Scion source control. Reviewed, tested changes landing is the normal path.
From the Drop: Anthropic builds its own source control as merges pass 30,000 a day
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