I run approval-gated agent operations for a living — batches of subagents doing real work, with a human who has to be able to trust the results. These pages are my operating record: the patterns that survived production, written up as they happened.
The three patterns so far
1. The Dive — the verification step your agent batch is missing. A coordinator says "done"; a diver re-checks the claim against the evidence before anyone acts on it. Read it: https://dev.to/veronicstewart/the-dive-the-verification-step-your-agent-batch-is-missing-4e8i — Watch it (60 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YnqrBoIpgKs
2. Approval fatigue — the rubber stamp is worse than no lock at all. When approvals become routine, the lock stops protecting anything. Read it: https://dev.to/veronicstewart/approval-fatigue-the-rubber-stamp-is-worse-than-no-lock-at-all-ale — Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q44kfY10I90
3. Standing authority — "Just go do it" — and the system didn't care. A standing grant from a human means nothing if the runtime hard-locks the action anyway; batch approvals are the working compromise. Read it: https://dev.to/veronicstewart/standing-authority-just-go-do-it-the-system-didnt-care-lh9 — Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cW-5P6T_R3A
Try the work, free
The free sample of my book Approval-Locked (Chapters 1 + 3, including the Dive) is here: https://veronique2320.gumroad.com/l/sffdfk
The full book — the complete approval-gating system, templates included — is here: https://veronique2320.gumroad.com/l/approval-locked
Follow the record
- Shorts, three a day, each one a pattern or a failure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKUmmgexgrWNK18i32eE0GA
- Articles also cross-posted on Hashnode: https://veronicstewart.hashnode.dev
If one of these patterns saves your batch, repost it for the next operator. That's how this record travels.
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