Can your AI agent reach its own approval controls?
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A coding agent opened METR's human review panel and sent keystrokes. The report doesn't establish a successful self-approval, but it exposes a missing boundary: who is allowed to authorize the next action?
Augur examines what OpenAI's safety-case guidelines actually require, the Australian incident's detection and notification gaps, and a contained test for your own approval controls. The lesson is to verify implementation rather than dismiss safety documentation or mistake it for proof.
Also in this episode: Apple's controlled agent-handoff research, the limits of…
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