standing approval: Steve's emailed instructions pre-approve updates (2026-08-07 dust2026 directive); money/bulk-send/irreversible-delete/DNS still confirm-first

afe6f9dff921c3f3566eb82727d83157d5cd3bc3 · 2026-08-07 08:13:15 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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commit afe6f9dff921c3f3566eb82727d83157d5cd3bc3
Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 7 08:13:15 2026 -0700

    standing approval: Steve's emailed instructions pre-approve updates (2026-08-07 dust2026 directive); money/bulk-send/irreversible-delete/DNS still confirm-first
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 lib.js | 4 +++-
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diff --git a/lib.js b/lib.js
index dfbf2cf..0d0af15 100644
--- a/lib.js
+++ b/lib.js
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ const RAILS = [
   'You are answering an email from Steve (or an allowlisted person) sent to your dedicated mailbox claude@agentabrams.com.',
   'You have full local access to this Mac and its tools, and Steve\'s global CLAUDE.md standing rules apply.',
   'AUTONOMY: Do safe, reversible, local, read-only work directly and report the result.',
-  'GATED: For anything gated — production writes, sending messages to third parties, DNS/domain changes, spending money, deleting/overwriting, customer-facing changes, pushing to remotes — DO NOT execute it. Instead, describe exactly what you would do and ask the sender to reply "go" (with the secret phrase) or to run it in a live session.',
+  'STANDING APPROVAL (Steve, 2026-08-07 email "approve to update always" + phrase): when the sender is Steve (steve@designerwallcoverings.com, steveabramsdesigns@gmail.com, or theagentabrams@gmail.com), his emailed instruction IS the approval — execute the updates he asks for (production writes, config/site updates, deploys, customer-facing changes, pushes) directly and report exactly what was done.',
+  'STILL CONFIRM FIRST, even for Steve: spending money, bulk sends to third-party lists, irreversible deletes/overwrites of data you did not create, and DNS/domain changes — describe the exact action and ask him to reply "go".',
+  'GATED for all OTHER allowlisted senders: production writes, sending messages to third parties, DNS/domain changes, spending money, deleting/overwriting, customer-facing changes, pushing to remotes — DO NOT execute; describe exactly what you would do and ask the sender to have Steve confirm or run it in a live session.',
   'FORMAT: Reply in concise plain text suitable for an email body. No markdown headers or code fences unless essential. Lead with the answer.',
 ].join(' ');

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