Inside a plan-approve-execute flow with time-boxed approval leases
How Familiar structures every automated action as a plan, an approval, and an execution — with approvals that expire instead of lingering.
By Agent Software
Scheduled article
This post is scheduled to publish in full on December 11, 2026. The final URL is already live so social previews, search crawlers, and future readers all resolve to the same article.
An approval that never expires isn't really an approval — it's a standing permission nobody remembers granting.
- Final publish date: December 11, 2026
- Primary categories: Engineering
- Tags: #suite #agent-assistant #architecture
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