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Governing agent autonomy with Auto-review

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Summary

To enhance productivity while mitigating security risks, a new feature called "Auto-review" has been launched, allowing agents to operate with varying levels of autonomy based on the context of their actions rather than constant user prompts. This system employs a classifier agent that evaluates the risk of each action within its specific context, enabling agents to act freely when stakes are low and slowing them down when higher risks are involved. The classifier, designed to be fast and contextual, sits in the agent execution path and assesses actions using tools to inspect the workspace, ensuring decisions align with user intent. By providing feedback to the parent agent rather than generating approval prompts, the system maintains workflow efficiency and reduces unnecessary user interruptions, with only a small percentage of actions being blocked. This approach aims to refine agent autonomy while keeping safety in check, with Auto-review now set as the default for new users.

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