An AI agent can be approved and still leave you with an unknown result

说明与用途

批准AI代理可以执行操作并不保证远程服务已完成。Agent Work Layer将结果未知的操作标记为"unknown"，并且不会自动重试，允许操作员检查并在需要时重新尝试。

问题

An approval that an AI agent may attempt an action does not guarantee the remote service completed it, leading to uncertain outcomes.

结果

A reproduction of PR #43 on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.1 ran 42 passing tests in ~21.95 seconds, confirming that unknown outcomes are correctly handled and that retries are not automatically triggered.

工作流

• 1. Gateway records operation start.
• 2. Receiver performs the effect.
• 3. Receiver returns a result.
• 4. Gateway records the result.
• 5. If gateway dies before step 4, operation status is set to "unknown".
• 6. Operator can inspect logs and decide to retry or settle the unknown outcome.

证据

An approval answers whether an agent may attempt an action. It does not tell you whether a remote service completed it.

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The useful outcome was a change we could inspect and rerun.

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On October 27, 2026, the maintainer-side reproduction checked out PR #43's exact head, 493157aee3391ec89fe1ffd301a402ae6e61861c, on Linux x86_64 with Node v24.22.1.

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The focused suite finished with 42 passing tests, zero failures and zero skips, exit 0, in about 21.95 seconds.

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First, recovery from the killed process includes manual lock removal.

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Second, the gateway test representing the before/after-send ambiguity injects a running log entry.

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