When nobody's at the keyboard: Reddit debates how agent approval prompts reach a human
localhost_0000 · reddit · 2026-11-13
A Reddit discussion highlights a gap in agent workflows: people have built fixes for "at the laptop but not looking" — sessions as villagers asking permission, prompts in the Mac notch, forwarding to Telegram bots. The unsolved case is when nobody is around: an 11pm event-triggered job needs sign-off on a refund or budget change while the owner is asleep or offline. Most setups send asks to Slack/email and default to wait-or-expire, making approval speed depend on whoever checks Slack first. The author asks how practitioners actually route approvals to humans and whether they have backup approvers.
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