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A post-call hook can only react.
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A post-call hook can only react.
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A post-call hook can only react. The agent may receive failure after the tenant moved. Reconcile unknown outcomes before another call. Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone. #EricFieldNotes
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A post-tool callback is valuable for audit and reconciliation. But if a tenant change committed before the callback ran, logging failed or cleaning up later is not the same as preventing the change. Put the consequential permission decision at a boundary before the target commits.
In a disposable service, commit the change and drop only the acknowledgement. The tool reports a timeout. If the agent retries without looking up the original operation, it can issue a second change. The missing reply tells us nothing conclusive about the target state.
Before dispatch, the harness can reject an ineligible request. At the service, authorize the principal and tenant. After the call, correlate the result and audit it. Then query the operation receipt and current target state. Keep the call ID across all four records.
Persist an operation ID before dispatch. If acknowledgement disappears, look up that ID and target state. Permit a retry only under the service's proven operation semantics. Do this because a post-call hook describes what it observed, while the service controls what can happen.
Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone.
#EricFieldNotes
Four-beat scene transcript
1. A post-call hook can only react.
A post-tool callback is valuable for audit and reconciliation. But if a tenant change committed before the callback ran, logging failed or cleaning up later is not the same as preventing the change. Put the consequential permission decision at a boundary before the target commits.
Visual: Its log cannot unmake an external effect.
2. A timeout is not a rollback.
In a disposable service, commit the change and drop only the acknowledgement. The tool reports a timeout. If the agent retries without looking up the original operation, it can issue a second change. The missing reply tells us nothing conclusive about the target state.
Visual: The agent may receive failure after the tenant moved.
3. Separate four checks.
Before dispatch, the harness can reject an ineligible request. At the service, authorize the principal and tenant. After the call, correlate the result and audit it. Then query the operation receipt and current target state. Keep the call ID across all four records.
Visual: Eligibility, authorization, audit and state readback do different work.
4. Move permission to the effect boundary.
Persist an operation ID before dispatch. If acknowledgement disappears, look up that ID and target state. Permit a retry only under the service's proven operation semantics. Do this because a post-call hook describes what it observed, while the service controls what can happen.
Visual: Reconcile unknown outcomes before another call.
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