Path: Build with AI
Give an agent limits before power
Decide, action by action, what an assistant may do alone and what has to wait for your approval.
- Starting level
- Comfortable with the basics
- Time
- 20 minutes
- Public lesson guide
- EN + हिंदी
You will learn to
Decide, action by action, what an assistant may do alone and what has to wait for your approval.
Why this matters
Handing over a whole task hands over every action inside it, including the ones that move money or reach other people.
Three things to remember
- Grant authority one action at a time, never for the whole task.
- Sort actions by whether they can be undone.
- Anything touching money, messages to others, or deletion asks first.
See one example
Task
An assistant helping with a college club's email account.
Try the judgement yourself
Both answers respond to the task above. One of them does the job better. Which, and why?
Make something yourself
List five actions an assistant could take inside a task you actually do. Mark each may do alone or must ask, and write the reason for the two hardest ones.
A useful starting pointFour things: the action, undoable or not, who it affects, your decision.
Read further
The source is optional. The complete teaching and practice are available inside AI2Bharat.
Read the primary or official source: OpenAI Agent Evals