An Agent Can Have Permission and Still Be Wrong to Proceed: Rethinking Authority
FactivalUniverse · reddit · 2026-09-06
The author argues agent permission models answer a static question ("is this action allowed?") while missing a harder one: whether the action is still authorized now, given state changes like expiring approvals, shifting risk states, stale evidence, or cumulative thresholds. They propose separating Permission from Current Authority, a loop of state → fresh authority check → action → re-evaluation, and ask which events should invalidate prior authorizations—balancing the cost of rechecking every tool call against stale-authority risk.
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