How should UIs attribute actions taken by agents through a signed-in human account?
max__drake · x · 2026-11-11
A developer building a Codex plugin ran into a UI design question: when an agent acts (e.g. comments) through a signed-in human account, how should attribution be shown — user first, agent first, or together?
He notes GitHub and other coding apps use a user/agent pattern, but code authorship matters far more than comment ownership, making them weak precedents. In his own comment threads, putting the human first makes it look like talking to yourself, since all main avatars are the user's own. He now leans toward an "agent on behalf of user" pattern — truest to what actually happens: the agent does the commenting, but through his account and only because he told it to.
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