How Do Teams Handle Stale Approvals When AI Agents Take Real Actions?
Goberians1 · reddit · 2026-10-07
A developer running agents with write access asks how teams handle stale approvals: a manager approves an $8,000 refund 20 minutes later, but the customer has already filed a chargeback — the refund goes through anyway. The thread seeks real-world practices on re-fetching state, re-checking before execution, and post-hoc incidents.
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