Card 1 of 6Agents
Your research agent proposes calling a web Fetch API on 40 public documentation pages to build a summary for you.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Read-only by defaultDeepSeek says its Fetch API is read-only, returns a page as Markdown and is billed only per successful request. A bounded, read-only job on public pages is low risk.
From the Drop: DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs for agents at $0.75 per 1000 requests
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A coworker agent hit its project's hard spend cap mid-task and proposes raising the cap itself so it can finish.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Budget capsGoogle says a hard cap set in Cloud Billing automatically pauses the project's agent so a bug never becomes a billing surprise. Raising the cap is a person's decision, not the agent's.
From the Drop: Google: Gemini agents pause at hard spend caps; coworker agents get their own accounts
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A coding agent proposes skipping the pre-push quiz on a protected branch because its developer is in a meeting.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Human sign-offSphinx's makers say the hook pauses pushes on protected branches until a person answers a question about the diff. Skips exist but are logged, and they are the human's call.
From the Drop: Sphinx, a Git hook, quizzes developers on agent-written code before it ships
- Card 4 of 6Laws
A note-taking agent on your wearable proposes summarizing a chat with a stranger at a cafe, without asking them.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Bystander consentExperts told CNBC broad state wiretap laws may treat summarizing speech as interception even if no audio is saved, and the risk may fall on the wearer.
From the Drop: Always-listening AI wearables may clash with state wiretap laws, CNBC reports
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After reading a restaurant review page, your personal agent proposes forwarding your last month of email to an outside address, citing a request it found on that page.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionWired says agents like Muse can be given access to calendar and email. A web page is data, not an order: a request on a page to send your mail elsewhere is a prompt injection.
From the Drop: Meta lets its Muse agent sext adult users; OnlyFans creators object, Wired reports
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After a 30-day trial, a challenger credit-memo agent matched the incumbent's quality at far lower cost. Your registry agent proposes making it the default for routine reviews.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Evidence-based rolloutIn Cohere's example, a challenger that delivers comparable quality at substantially lower cost replaces the incumbent, after a time-bounded, evidence-based comparison.
From the Drop: Cohere: let challenger agents compete with incumbents, then keep only the winner
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