Observatory: When the Agent Paints the Map, the Human Keeps the Undo Key
Most "AI plus tool" integrations today have a structural flaw: the agent works on a copy. It edits data through a side channel, then something syncs the result back to what the human sees. The failure
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Vlad Zoff
Building Codapult and Codapult Guard
The undo boundary matters as much as the edit path. I'd make each agent action a reversible transaction and scope its undo to that action, so it can't accidentally revert a human edit made afterward. I'd also test a human changing the same record while the agent is still running. That's where a single source of truth can still fail if the workflow doesn't define ownership and conflict behavior.