Why approval prompts don't work as a security boundary for coding agents
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When a coding agent asks a human to approve a file change, a database call, or a deploy, the approval prompt feels like a security boundary. It's not. In practice, approval prompts leak authority for three reasons: approval fatigue, approvals that never expire, and stale pending approvals that outl…
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- 2026-10-09 14:40 · DEV Community — AI
Why approval prompts don't work as a security boundary for coding agents