Author Says Agent Human Approval Is Often Theater

An author argues that “human approval” in many agent systems often functions as theater rather than real control. Using a multi-tenant MCP server with write access and real money-related operations, they show approval layers like human approval or draft-then-commit can fail when the approval step is outside the true execution path or when people approve a model-written description instead of the exact action.

2026-07-18 ~ 2026-07-19 · 2 related posts