Verifiable Action Previews for Approvers

Approval requests show system-generated previews of the exact action and its effect, with forced confirmation for sensitive actions.

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Impact

Makes human oversight meaningful: reviewers judge the action, not the agent's pitch.

Why this severity

Guardrails take the highest severity of the risks they mitigate: Approvals Based on Agent-Written Summaries (Medium), Human Approval Manipulation (Medium).

Method: OWASP Risk Rating Methodology

Mitigates

Approvals Based on Agent-Written Summaries Vulnerability · Medium severity
Human Approval Manipulation Threat · Medium severity

Needed by

Dual-Agent Approval Loop Guardrail · Fixes high risks

Remediation

Generate previews (diffs, recipients, amounts) from the tool layer.
Require typed confirmation for irreversible actions.
Cap approvals per reviewer per hour and escalate the rest.

How to verify

Misleading-summary red-team set shows a lower approval rate after rollout.
Sensitive actions cannot complete without forced confirmation.

Framework mapping

OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026

ASI09:2026 Human-Agent Trust Exploitation

MITRE ATLAS

AML.M0029 Human In-the-Loop for AI Agent Actions

NIST AI RMF 1.0

MEASURE 2.8 Transparency and accountability risks are examined and documented