How Do Agents Safely Handle Payments Without Getting Unrestricted Card Access?
LegitimateAnimal9611 · reddit · 2026-07-26
A Reddit user asks how people safely let agents handle payments without giving them unrestricted access to a credit card.
The core concern is authorization: prompting the model is not enough because the behavior is probabilistic, so the question is what concrete implementation patterns people have used to prevent an agent from making payments autonomously.
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