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Your AI agent's approval gate checks the verb, not the object

Community description: Most human-in-the-loop setups for AI agents ask one question before a risky action: is this tool...

Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Actionable Vectors

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An agent reads content written by someone other than the person who made the request (a wiki runbook, an invoice field, a PR description, an earlier ticket message), and that content steers what the agent does. Sign the exact arguments (tool, payee, amount, invoice, expiry, nonce) and re-check them at execution time. Pull one approval record from your agent platform.

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