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Systems · 16 min
Confirmations and the kill switch
This is the lesson the network keeps telling you to finish. Any action that sends, pays, deletes, or impersonates waits for a confirmation you can audit.
The kill switch is not a red button in a slide. It is a hard stop in code: max steps, max spend, max tools, and a human who can freeze the run.
Write the confirmation copy before the happy path. If you cannot explain the action in one sentence to the person it affects, do not automate it.
When you mark this complete, you are saying you will not ship an agent that talks like a CEO. Sarah’s voice-cloning alert is the exam question.