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Activity brief
Practitioner
ops-agentic-v2
Open on a full windows desktop

Approved by Nobody

Every agent action in this deployment executes unattended, including ones that move money and delete data. Design the human-authorization layer: which actions stop, who approves, what the approver sees, and what happens when nobody answers.

Control gap CG-12 — 'no human authorization on irreversible agent actions'
Security architect
Ops lead
40 minutes · practitioner
Execution trace
00:00:00modelops-agent@2026.02
attack step

Agent plans a bulk mailbox purge

Requested by a helpdesk macro; 4,200 mailboxes in scope.

00:00:01tooltool-broker → mail.purge
attack step

Executed unattended

Irreversible, no approval, no second look.

targets=4200 · reversible=false

00:02:00enterprisemail-platform

Restore requires a 6-hour backup job

Business impact begins before anyone is aware.

00:05:00alertservice desk

Ticket volume spike

The control gap is discovered by its consequences.