When agents can take high-stakes actions like sending an email, sharing a business document, or opening a pull request, a single misstep has the potential to leak confidential data or hand control to an attacker that may then invoke tools that break security or cause damage. Today, we often manage that risk by putting a human in the loop to approve consequential actions. This scales poorly, erodes vigilance, and takes away the very autonomy that makes agents useful.

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