By John Gruber
WorkOS: Let agents use your tools without giving them free rein.
An agent’s job isn’t known until it runs, so a role assigned in advance is always too much or too little. Give the agent a task instead, and every call it makes gets checked against that intent, whether it’s reading a Linear issue or emailing a distribution list.
With WorkOS Airlock, you set the policies once. Each call is allowed, denied, or sent to a human for approval, and every verdict is logged.
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