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2026-09-23 — Agent guidance that walks a person through a third party's interface carries a verification tag, observed on screen in this session or taken unverified from the vendor's documentation, and asks for a screenshot before a second guess, or reads the page itself where it can; and every redaction rule states its purpose (product thinker, ruling on iss-2609100506256173, adopting both halves). Its home is the managed-repository agent conventions or a principle, still to be written; this entry is the ruling until then.
decisiondcn-2609230000000011
2026-09-23 — Agent guidance that walks a person through a third party's interface carries a verification tag, observed on screen in this session or taken unverified from the vendor's documentation, and asks for a screenshot before a second guess, or reads the page itself where it can; and every redaction rule states its purpose (product thinker, ruling on iss-2609100506256173, adopting both halves). Its home is the managed-repository agent conventions or a principle, still to be written; this entry is the ruling until then.
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| id | dcn-2609230000000011 |
|---|---|
| type | decision |
| date | 2026-09-23 |
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- guidance-carries-its-evidence-and-its-purposeGuidance carries its evidence and its purpose
- iss-2609100506256173An agent walking an operator through a third-party hosting dashboard produced four successive sets of instructions, none of which matched the screen in front of them. The task — create a hosting API token, put it in two forge secrets, run a workflow — is mechanically trivial and took roughly ten exchanges, most of them the operator saying the instruction did not match what they could see.