Three-Tier Architecture for Real-World Agent Action Approval
AiGentsy · reddit · 2026-07-17
When AI agents need to perform real-world actions like sending emails, calling APIs, or transferring funds, simple prompt-based confirmations or Slack notifications are often bypassed by the model or lead to blind human approval. The author proposes splitting the approval mechanism into three distinct layers:
- Policy Layer: Before notifying a human, deterministic rules should dictate whether manual intervention is required (e.g., auto-approving micro-transactions while blocking high-risk ones), thereby mitigating approval fatigue.
- Execution Layer: The approval gating must be structural; operations cannot reach the actual function without permission, and it must "fail closed."
- Evidence Layer: Approval records should contain offline-verifiable cryptographic signatures, rather than self-attested logs stored in an internal database.
Based on this paradigm, the author developed the open-source tool aigentsy, which wraps tools in a single line of code and returns verifiable proofs.
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