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Gate Irreversible Actions Behind Confirmation
How an autonomous agent should handle irreversible or high-blast-radius operations: estimating blast radius, previewing with a dry run, requiring explicit confirmation for the destructive step, scoping approval to exactly one action, and leaving an audit trail. So autonomy never means acting irreversibly on an unverified assumption.
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Reversibility, not size, decides what needs a human
Gate Irreversible Actions Behind Confirmation# Reversibility, not size, decides what needs a human The common mistake is gating the biggest-looking actions. Size is the wrong axis: a million-row read is enormous and harmless, while a single `DELETE` against the wrong row is unrecoverable. Classify by **whether the action can be undone**, then
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