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You state the observable goal and let the agent determine how to record or build it. When reliability risks or prerequisite dead-ends emerge, you abandon initial implementation channels immediately to keep the core objective intact. On high-consequence architectures, you keep branching decisions in your hands, answering trade-off questions directly rather than delegating direction.

You monitor active agent runs and interrupt thrashing loops the moment an approach fails to make progress. Rather than defending an initial preference, you reverse dead-end decisions and lock down safe runtime boundaries before continuing.

On smaller configuration and deployment tasks, final confirmation is sometimes handed to the worker without an independent check. To ensure changes take effect as intended:

• Verify rendered target state directly in the real environment.
• Review actual diffs before approving commits.