How AI agents are moving from read-only copilots to autonomous automation with guardrails. Best practices for approval gates and rollback.
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# Example: pipeline step that uses an agent with gates
- name: Agent-proposed change
run: |
agent propose infra-change
if [ "$APPROVAL" = "true" ]; then
agent apply --dry-run
require_approval "Apply to prod?"
agent apply
fi
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