The hardest part of agent execution may be permissions, approvals and failure handling
marcelk231 · reddit · 2026-07-21
A customer discovery post asks what the hardest part is when letting AI agents actually take actions, not just recommend them.
- The author lists common pain points: tool integration, credentials, permissioning, human approval, failures and retries, monitoring, and avoiding costly mistakes.
- They say they are trying to understand whether agent execution is still painful or whether current platforms have already solved it well enough.
- The context is agents connected to email, CRMs, browsers, databases, internal software, and APIs.
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