We've been answering the same HIVE questions across Reddit threads, so here's everything in one place

Been answering these across a bunch of threads, so figured I'd put them all in one post. Keeping it honest — including the stuff we haven't done yet. How does the agent see? What about apps it's never seen? We try to make vision unnecessary. The agent doesn't look at the screen — it reads structured actions with typed inputs and stated permissions. Starting with web software. Apps the agent has never seen are the hard version of the same problem, not a different one. Is the translation layer a product, or do you co-write it with the domain team? Honestly, both — in different places. The machinery is ours. The judgment is per deployment. The team that owns the workflow writes the rules with us. We learned defaults calcify fast. A rule that only lives in a config file will go stale, because the person who knows when it needs to change isn't the person who can edit the config. What if the agent changes the arguments between approval and execution? Then it isn't the approved action anymore. The approval has to bind the exact arguments and the policy version. Changed request goes back to the approver. And rejections get recorded with the same binding, so the chain shows what was refused and why — not just what went through. How do you test failure modes before production? Same way you test guardrails. Try the unauthorized action and watch it stop. Try the missing field and watch it ask. Try the stale data and watch it refresh. Try the ambiguous request and watch it clarify. Try the step that needs approval and watch it wait. One rule: an error has to say whether it's safe to keep working. "Customer created but attachment failed" is not "customer creation failed" — otherwise the repair repeats the part that already worked. What we haven't done yet: we haven't measured token savings, and we don't claim universal compatibility. This is the access layer we're building, and we're testing it in the open. So — what should we prove next?