Trust, permissions, and the undo button
An agent that writes to your Jira, your CRM, and your Slack has to earn that access. The design principles we're using to make autonomous actions safe to say yes to.
The moment you tell someone their meeting assistant will create Jira tickets and post to Slack on its own, you can watch the calculation happen on their face. Useful, obviously. Also: what happens when it's wrong?
That question is the actual product problem. Extraction quality is table stakes; being safe to trust is the thing that decides whether autonomy ever gets switched on.
Four principles
- Least privilege, per connector
- Each integration is authorized separately with the narrowest scope that does the job — create and comment, not delete, not admin. An agent hired to file tickets should be incapable of closing your sprint.
- Everything is reversible
- Every write is tracked as a Squirrel-originated action and can be undone from one place. If a meeting was processed badly, you shouldn't be hunting through four tools to clean it up.
- Confidence is visible
- High-confidence items execute; ambiguous ones surface as one-tap suggestions. You can set where that line sits, per workspace — full autopilot on one end, review-everything on the other.
- Provenance on every action
- Every created item links back to the timestamped moment in the transcript that produced it. Auditable by default, not on request.
The boring parts that matter
- Idempotency. Re-running a meeting doesn't duplicate anything. Actions are keyed to the item that produced them.
- Scoped memory. A private leadership call doesn't leak into a company-wide answer. Access follows the meeting.
- Encryption in transit and at rest, and your data stays yours — not training material.
- A visible kill switch. Pausing all outbound actions is one control, not a support ticket.
Autonomy is a permission you're granted, repeatedly, by being right and being reversible. It isn't a setting you ship.
We'd rather ship a narrower agent that teams turn all the way up than a broad one they leave in review mode forever.
The short version
- Autonomy without reversibility is not a feature, it's a liability.
- Scope each connector to create-and-comment; never to delete or administer.
- Confidence thresholds are a product surface, not an internal setting.
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