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Agents in everyday & working life
Reviewing an agent's work
Also called: checking what it did, approve before send, the agent's log
The habit and mechanism of seeing what an agent actually did or is about to do — an approval prompt before a consequential action, and a readable record of past actions — rather than trusting it silently.
An agent acts on your behalf, so its mistakes are yours. A checkpoint before it sends or pays, plus a log you can actually read, is what keeps a helpful assistant from quietly doing something you'd never have approved.
A notification you dismiss. Real review means you can see and refuse the action; an approval you always rubber-stamp is no safeguard at all.