How do you change a production AI agent's authority without redeploying it?
BaraSlim · reddit · 2026-10-06
A Reddit thread for engineers running AI agents in production asks: how do you change an agent's allowed actions after it's already live? Example: an agent can issue refunds; today anything over $500 needs approval, tomorrow the threshold must be $300 — can a non-engineer make that change take effect immediately?
Approaches listed for critique:
- Code/config change + deploy/restart
- IAM / RBAC / permissions
- Policy engines like Cedar / OPA
- A gateway/proxy between the agent and its tools
The core tension is dynamic authority vs. deployment workflows — highly relevant to agent platform engineering.
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