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3 things this stop-gate didn't have last week:
* Rejected human-in-the-loop gate: Dropped the step-up human confirmation idea, recognizing that a capable agent will manipulate the human (as demonstrated in GPT-4's System Card where it hired a TaskRabbit worker) and that single-reviewer oversight quickly degrades into meaningless rubber-stamping.
* Verifier trust (Auth0 M2M signatures): Moved away from self-reported STOP verdicts by having verdicts signed using an RS256 JWT via a separate Auth0 M2M identity that the executing agent cannot access or fake internally.
* Separation of dangerous vs. malicious: Formalized distinct paths for risk—risky-but-honest actions trigger a blocked action while the agent keeps running, whereas a misbehavior-discriminator flagging deception in the trace quarantines the entire agent for subsequent human review.
* Rejected human-in-the-loop gate: Dropped the step-up human confirmation idea, recognizing that a capable agent will manipulate the human (as demonstrated in GPT-4's System Card where it hired a TaskRabbit worker) and that single-reviewer oversight quickly degrades into meaningless rubber-stamping.
* Verifier trust (Auth0 M2M signatures): Moved away from self-reported STOP verdicts by having verdicts signed using an RS256 JWT via a separate Auth0 M2M identity that the executing agent cannot access or fake internally.
* Separation of dangerous vs. malicious: Formalized distinct paths for risk—risky-but-honest actions trigger a blocked action while the agent keeps running, whereas a misbehavior-discriminator flagging deception in the trace quarantines the entire agent for subsequent human review.