Section 3 — Tools & Environment

    Permission request

    What the harness shows the user before executing a tool call that isn't preapproved. The model produces a tool call; instead of running it immediately, the harness pauses and as...

    Matt Pocock
    Matt Pocock

    What the harness shows the user before executing a tool call that isn't pre-approved. The model produces a tool call; instead of running it immediately, the harness pauses and asks. Approve and it runs; deny and the harness reports the denial back to the model as a tool result. The mechanism by which a harness puts a human in the loop for risky or sensitive actions.

    Usage:

    "It's been blocked on a permission request for ten minutes — I was in a meeting."

    "That's the cost of human-in-the-loop. Pre-approve the safe tools so the request only fires on the actually-risky calls."

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