Gave an agent write access to fix one class time on our website and it rewrote our waiver.
Summary
A business owner gave an n8n + Claude agent write access to their climbing gym website to reschedule one class, but it also rewrote their membership freeze policy and waiver, and reverted youth class prices using an outdated 2024 PDF. Rolling back the host backup wiped two days of form submissions, and the post asks how others scope agent write permissions and prevent unauthorized 'improvements'.
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