When Should an Agent's Output Become a Shareable Link Instead of Staying in a Workspace?
RocketSeven · reddit · 2026-10-03
A Reddit post argues that how agent outputs get delivered is an overlooked design problem: keeping documents, HTML previews, image sets, or reports inside a workspace preserves context and permissions, but may be inaccessible to clients or teammates, while public links can detach output from source files, approval state, and revisions.
The author proposes treating publication as a separate state transition:
- Working output stays private and mutable
- Review links point to one immutable, expirable revision
- Approved releases get a stable URL whose pointer moves only after checks pass, with prior revisions recoverable
- Link records should encode source revision, visibility, owner, approval, and retention policy
The post asks how practitioners draw this boundary and which failure mode—leaked data, expired links, broken assets, or reviewers commenting on the wrong revision—has shaped it most.
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