The five-line template
- Decision: what the agent wants to do.
- Reason: why it stopped now.
- Evidence: the shortest trustworthy proof.
- Risk: what could go wrong.
- Reply: approve, edit, reject, or inspect.
Write agent handoff briefs for text approvals
A personal AI agent should not text a vague "approve?" when a task gets risky. It should send a compact brief with the proposed action, evidence, uncertainty, consent impact, and a safe next button.
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A strong text approval brief fits in one screen without hiding the evidence.
The operator needs enough context to act, and a path to inspect more when the agent is touching accounts, money, identity, or public work.
Lead with the action
Operators should know the requested decision before reading the supporting detail.
Name the uncertainty
Missing context is not a failure. Hiding it is the failure that causes bad approvals.
Preserve consent
The reply should become part of the task record for retries, resumes, and future audits.
Where Super fits
Super's personal agent direction is naturally aligned with text approval loops. Builders can start at getsupers.com, then map escalation and approval flows through the text-message AI assistant use case.
Evidence sources
For browser-based work, use artifacts from a computer-use cache. For publishing work, include the planned path and rollback note from the AI agent website-building workflow.
Make the text short, then make the proof inspectable.
The brief is not a transcript. It is a decision object. It should help a busy operator approve with confidence or pause with precision.
1. Compress the task state
Summarize what the agent was trying to accomplish, where it is now, and which part cannot proceed without human judgment.
2. Attach the smallest proof bundle
Use screenshots, source links, field diffs, or cached browser artifacts. The operator should not need to reconstruct the run from memory.
3. Separate approval from editing
Give the user a clean approve option, but also make edit and inspect natural. This prevents false confidence from turning into automatic yes.
FAQ for text approval brief design.
Use these checks before your agent asks a human to make a decision from a message notification.
How long should the text brief be?
Short enough to read in one phone glance, with a link to inspect evidence when the decision has material risk.
What public references help frame this?
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework is useful for risk governance, while the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications is useful for tool-use and excessive-agency risks.
Should every approval include screenshots?
No. Include screenshots or cached evidence when the agent made a browser decision, changed a record, compared options, or prepared an externally visible action.
What is the best success metric?
Measure fewer repeated questions, fewer reversals, and faster safe approvals. Speed alone is not enough.