Path: Expert, safety & agents
Decide what an agent may do alone
Sort an agent's actions by whether they can be undone, and decide which ones need your approval every time.
- Starting level
- Comfortable with the basics
- Time
- 22 minutes
- Public lesson guide
- EN + हिंदी
You will learn to
Grant an agent authority action by action, based on what each action would cost to undo.
Why this matters
One approval for a whole task is in practice an approval for its worst step.
Three things to remember
- Grant authority per action, never once for the whole task.
- Rank each action by how hard it is to undo.
- Name who approves the steps that cannot be undone.
See one example
Task
A shop assistant that reads the register, drafts replies, reorders stock and pays bills.
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 four actions you would let an assistant take on your behalf. For each one write the consequence, whether it can be undone, and who must approve it.
A useful starting pointFour columns: the action, its consequence, the cost of undoing it, and the approver.
Read further
The source is optional. The complete teaching and practice are available inside AI2Bharat.
Read the primary or official source: OpenAI AgentKit