The handoff test: approve, revoke, transfer to a fresh agent—does human authority survive?
tallmetommy · x · 2026-10-06
The author proposes a thought experiment for agent permission design—the "handoff test": approve an agent's action, revoke the approval, then transfer the task to a fresh agent instance and check whether the action actually stops. Core claim: human authority must survive agent handoffs (restarts, new instances), otherwise approval mechanisms are meaningless. A concrete, actionable test for designing agent permission and approval systems.
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