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How to make an AI assistant pause before deleting files

This guide explains how to let an AI assistant do safe tasks automatically while forcing it to ask for permission before making major changes. The author tests this using a safe, temporary file system.

Original by Ben SabicAgent workflows

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“How to automatically approve tool calls in eve with Jev” by Ben Sabic. Read the original source.

This expanded guide is an AI-narrated adaptation prepared by JevMade. It expands the source’s essential ideas, examples and caveats in JevMade’s own words and is not a word-for-word reading. The synthetic voice does not imitate the author or imply their endorsement.

Our summary

AI assistants can run computer commands to help you work. Some commands just read information, while others delete files. Asking a person to approve every single action slows everything down, but letting the software run without checks is dangerous. This guide shows how to balance speed and safety.

The author tests a setup using Jev, an AI tool that chooses from options rather than writing an answer. Before the assistant runs a command, Jev decides if it is safe or risky. Safe commands run immediately, while risky ones pause on the screen until a person approves them.

This is useful for people building AI assistants who want to protect their files. You must turn off other tools that could bypass these checks. Also, the actual software running the commands must still enforce strict security rules, just in case the AI makes a mistake.

Key takeaways

  1. Turn off any extra tools that could let the AI assistant bypass your safety checks.
  2. Reject a deletion, check that the file still exists, then approve a new command in a temporary workspace.
  3. If the decision tool fails, a person must step in, while the main software enforces security rules.

The built-in helper uses the winning choice rather than a specific probability score to make its decision. By default, the decision tool does not see the past conversation history.

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