Agent-Native apps: why agents bypassing your UI can break business rules
rseroter · x · 2026-10-27
A Builder.io post argues for an 'Agent-Native' application architecture now that AI agents are a new class of caller.
- Risk example: an expense is approved and locked, the UI blocks edits — but an agent asked to "change my hotel expense to $300" takes a different path and bypasses the approval check.
- The core problem: one action, multiple callers (UI endpoint, agent, external integration), with logic buried in UI-facing layers agents never traverse. Exposing raw APIs alone fails too, since agents lack needed context.
- The proposal: converge operations into a shared application context and unified Actions layer so humans and agents follow the same rules.
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