An 'Ask First' Prompt Is Not an Approval Control for Agents
WirelessLife · x · 2026-09-24
Echoing Lee Stott: a prompt saying 'ask first' is not an approval control. If an agent can write to real systems, the runtime must pause, collect a human decision, then resume or reject that exact operation — the gate belongs in the execution layer, not model compliance.
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