What should and who should control an agents action?

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Summary

This article discusses the need for an authorization layer to control irreversible actions performed by AI agents, introducing Agaemon as a solution that allows agents to decide actions while ensuring they operate within explicit permissions and policies.

AI agents are becoming much more capable. They can remember state , use tools, call APIs , execute workflow and operate autonomously.Cloudflare agents platform is a good example of where this is heading. I think there is an important layer that is still being overlooked: What happens when an agent wants to perform an irreversible action? Should the agent itself have the authority to execute that transaction? Or should there be a seperate authorization layer that checks : Is this action permitted? Is this contract/address allowed? Does the action match the agents intended scope? What evidence should be recorded after execution? This is the problem we've been working on with Agaemon. The idea is simple: The agent can decide what it wants to do . Agaemon decides whether it is allowed to do it. The execution account remains outside the agent. The goal isn't to stop agents from being autonomous. It's to make autonomy operate inside explicit permission, policies and conditions. We' re particularly interested in how other builders are solving this today. If you're building AI agents that can interact with wallets, DeFi , payment, APIs or other irreversible systems: What sits between your agent and execution? I'd like to hear from you all what you think?
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