Connecting an Agent to Gmail, Slack and Sheets Feels Like Handing Keys to a Junior
uhmm_kayy · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Reddit poster describes letting an agent into Gmail, Slack, Sheets and Notion: read is fine, drafting replies is fine, updating spreadsheets is situational, sending to customers demands supervision, and irreversible actions are off-limits. They argue human approval doesn't scale — approving 20 tiny actions a day trains you to click yes blindly — so permission design (read vs write, reversible vs irreversible, dollar impact, internal vs external) matters more than another benchmark score. They ask how others gate agent autonomy in real workflows.
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