I Edited the Task Mid-Flight. The Agent Stopped Instead of Guessing.
<p>I spent a while getting permission levels right. What an agent may read, what it may write, what needs a human. That work was worth doing, and it did not save me here.</p> <p>The gap is simple to state and easy to miss: permission levels answer <em>what may this agent do</em>. They say nothing about <em>what happens when the task itself changes after the agent already has permission</em>.</p> <h2> The situation </h2> <p>When work is handed to an agent, the handoff carries a task definition, a
Story Overview
I spent a while getting permission levels right. What an agent may read, what it may write, what needs a human. That work was worth doing, and it did not save me here.
The gap is simple to state and easy to miss: permission levels answer what may this agent do. They say nothing about what happens when the task itself changes after the agent already has permission.
The situation
When work is handed to an agent, the handoff carries a task definition, a