Prompt
Critical decision highlighting
Design how an agent surfaces the few high-stakes decisions that need a human, without burying them in routine ones.
By Gus · founder — Agentic Design
The prompt
For [AGENT + DECISION TYPES], design how the agent highlights the critical decisions that need human attention. Produce: (1) the criteria that make a decision 'critical' (be specific — reversibility, cost, confidence, blast radius); (2) how a critical decision is presented differently from routine ones; (3) the interaction — approve, adjust, or defer; (4) how the routine many stay reviewable but out of the way. State the threshold explicitly so the system doesn't over-flag.
How to adapt
An agent makes hundreds of small decisions and a handful of consequential ones. The design problem is signal: making the critical few visible and actionable without drowning them in the routine many. This designs the highlighting system.
How to adapt
Give it [AGENT + DECISION TYPES]. Ask it to be ruthless about the threshold — the value collapses if everything gets highlighted.