Autonomous Decision Making
Medium
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Content
## Authorization is not this tool's job — decide it where it belongs Whether a write should happen is your decision, or the account's. The tool does not gate it — there is no read-only switch and no approval prompt to configure. The two right places to control read vs write: - **The account you connect with.** Give it a ceph-mgr Dashboard account with a
- Confidence
- 92% confidence
- Finding
- The guardrail document explicitly states that the tool does not enforce read-only mode or require approval for writes, leaving destructive Ceph operations entirely to account permissions or the outer agent prompt. In an agentic setting, prompt-only restrictions are unreliable and can be bypassed by model error, prompt injection, or misconfiguration, which makes autonomous execution of destructive storage actions a real safety risk.
