Agent Approval Loops via Slack and Telegram
This is a sample post. Real, original write-ups are being cooked up right now, brewing slowly, but properly.
Agent Approval Loops via Slack and Telegram
An agent that can publish directly is one bad run away from a bad day. Routing its output through a bot approval step keeps a human in the loop without turning every post into a manual chore.
Quick answer: the agent commits its draft to a branch, a webhook notifies a Slack/Telegram bot with a preview link, and an Approve tap triggers the actual promotion — the agent never touches production directly.
This post is scheduled to publish once this drip-release pattern is fully wired up on the site — proving the mechanism works before it's used for real.
Key Takeaways
- Keep the agent's write access scoped to a review branch, never
main. - A single Approve/Reject action is enough friction to catch bad drafts.
- The approval state itself is worth persisting, for auditability.
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