One reason agent projects stall in production is that no rollback plan was ever considered. Stopping a misbehaving autonomous flow and undoing its effect has to be designed up front.
01. Risk Classification
Split operations into three: reversible and low impact, reversible but visible, and irreversible. The third class must always pass human approval.
02. Putting Approval in the Right Place
Asking for approval at every step makes the agent pointless. The right approach is one approval at the point where something leaves the building or creates a lasting effect, leaving intermediate steps free.
03. Making Approval Meaningful
Show the approver what they're approving: the operation, the records affected and the agent's reasoning. A bare "approve" button becomes a button people press without thinking.
04. Rollback
Every write operation needs a defined inverse. For bulk operations that means being able to undo the whole batch at once.
05. Emergency Stop
There must be one switch that halts all agent flows. Shutting them down one by one when trouble appears wastes the time that matters.
06. Gradual Rollout
Run a new agent in shadow mode first: let it produce decisions without executing them. Move it to autonomous mode once its decisions agree closely enough with human ones.