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Cloudflare starts its AI agents with access to nothing

Cloudflare narrows an agent's authority by what it has already read, and an Australian directorate wrote a similar rule.

18 September, 2026

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AI needs the undocumented process written down first

Checking the AI agent's month-end close took as long as doing it, because nobody had written the process down.

10 September, 2026

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Approve, but not merge

Ona, NICE, Brex and Uber gave AI systems authority over a decision. None of them used an autonomy level.

09 September, 2026