Membership lesson · Build Your Jarvis · Module 6 — Agent core

Nothing acts without a yes

The headline of the module, and the rule the rest of the project lives by. Tools marked ask-first now stop the loop and show an approval card — which tool, exactly what inputs, plain enough to judge — and wait. Approve and it runs; deny and it genuinely does not, with the agent carrying on honestly without it. A journal records every gated decision (asked, approved, denied, when), so "what did Jarvis do?" always has an answer. An always-allow list exists for trust the member grants deliberately — and revokes just as easily. To test the gate with real stakes, the first genuinely consequential tool arrives: save-note, small and useful, writing to one file the member chose — the first time Jarvis can change something rather than just read. The soul of the lesson is the deny test: denied means it did not happen, provably.

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