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AI Safety Reports

SAF05

Release v2.1

AI Agent Permissions, Human Approvals, and Spending Controls

Define what an AI assistant may prepare, what a person must approve and what evidence is needed before a business commitment. Covers permissions, approval packets, separate cost and commitment records, uncertain execution results, reconciliation and pause procedures.

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What you can put into practice

  • Build an action inventory and permission map.
  • Bind approval to a complete transaction packet.
  • Separate service budgets from business commitments.
  • Record execution and reconcile uncertain results before retrying.
  • Rehearse a pause and document conditions for resuming.
  • Build an action inventory and permission map.
  • Bind approval to a complete transaction packet.
  • Separate service budgets from business commitments.
  • Record execution and reconcile uncertain results before retrying.
  • Rehearse a pause and document conditions for resuming.

Where this guidance helps

  • Purpose, permissions and authority levels
  • Decision ownership and approval packets
  • Costs, commitments and total calculations
  • Purpose, permissions and authority levels
  • Decision ownership and approval packets
  • Costs, commitments and total calculations

Tools you can adapt

  • approval record
  • commitment ledger
  • exception register
  • execution log
  • pause rehearsal
  • permission map
  • practical assessment
  • reconciliation record
  • service budget
  • transaction packet
  • workflow charter
  • permission policy
  • Boundaries of this toolkit
  • Topic-specific acceptance checks
  • approval record
  • commitment ledger
  • exception register
  • execution log
  • pause rehearsal
  • permission map
  • practical assessment
  • reconciliation record
  • service budget
  • transaction packet
  • workflow charter
  • permission policy
  • Boundaries of this toolkit
  • Topic-specific acceptance checks

Fictional examples, practical decisions

  • A replenishment order whose total changes.
  • Two customer refunds with one uncertain result.
  • A replenishment order whose total changes.
  • Two customer refunds with one uncertain result.

Inside the handbook

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Condensed topic outline:
  • Purpose, permissions and authority levels
  • Decision ownership and approval packets
  • Costs, commitments and total calculations
  • Execution states, evidence and deliberate pausing
  • Purchasing and refund fictional cases
  • Troubleshooting, rollout gates and release records

How this report was prepared

AI-assisted educational material with fictional worked cases, editable records and practice exercises. It is not an independent product test or a claim of certification. Source organizations do not endorse the publication.

AI-assisted educational material with fictional worked cases, editable records and practice exercises. It is not an independent product test or a claim of certification. Source organizations do not endorse the publication.

Scope and limitations

Educational guidance, not legal advice, a professional security assessment or certification. No guarantee of security, compliance or loss prevention. All case organizations, records and outcomes are fictional; practice does not establish that a real system is safe or authorized. The pause rehearsal is synthetic, not a tested platform control. No real financial transactions are part of the exercises.

Questions before you begin

What formats are included? PDF and Word reading materials, with editable CSV and Markdown tools and practice materials. Do exercises use live systems? No. Use the supplied fictional materials; do not connect real accounts, send messages, make payments or upload confidential records to complete them.

What formats are included? PDF and Word reading materials, with editable CSV and Markdown tools and practice materials.

Do exercises use live systems? No. Use the supplied fictional materials; do not connect real accounts, send messages, make payments or upload confidential records to complete them.

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