Autonomous Workflows

You: "Add validation to the user form"
Agent: "May I read UserForm.tsx?"
You: [Approve]
Agent: "May I modify UserForm.tsx?"
You: [Approve]
Agent: "May I create validation.ts?"
You: [Approve]
[... 10 more approvals ...]

You: "Add validation to the user form"
Agent: [High confidence - works autonomously]
      "Adding validation following your established patterns...
      ✓ Read UserForm.tsx
      ✓ Created validation schema
      ✓ Updated form component
      ✓ Added error messages
      ✓ Generated tests
      ✓ All tests passing

      Complete! Ready for review."

95-100%: Fully autonomous, no notifications
85-94%:  Autonomous with progress notifications
70-84%:  Proposes approach, asks to proceed
60-69%:  Asks for approval before changes
Below 60%: Multiple approvals, asks questions

You: "Create a products API endpoint"

Agent: [Confidence: 45% - Many questions needed]
"I'll create a products API. Some questions:
- What fields should the product have?
- What routes? (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE?)
- What validation rules?
- Authentication required?
- Response format preference?"

[You answer each question]

Agent: "May I create models/Product.ts?"
You: [Approve]

Agent: "May I create routes/products.ts?"
You: [Approve]

[... 8 more approval requests ...]

Time: 12 minutes
Approvals: 11

You: "Create a categories API endpoint"

Agent: [Confidence: 78% - Learned from products]
"I'll create a categories API following the same pattern
as your products endpoint.

Planned structure:
- Model: models/Category.ts
- Routes: routes/categories.ts
- Controller: controllers/categories.controller.ts
- Validation: Using Joi schemas
- Tests: Full CRUD coverage

Proceed with this approach?"

You: "Yes"

[Agent works with minimal approvals]

Time: 4 minutes
Approvals: 1

You: "Create a reviews API endpoint"

Agent: [Confidence: 92% - Fully autonomous]
"Creating reviews API with established patterns...

✓ Created models/Review.ts
✓ Created routes/reviews.ts
✓ Created controllers/reviews.controller.ts
✓ Added Joi validation schemas
✓ Implemented CRUD operations
✓ Added authentication middleware
✓ Generated comprehensive tests (24 test cases)
✓ All tests passing

Complete! Reviews API ready at /api/reviews"

Time: 1.5 minutes
Approvals: 0

After learning your pattern for API endpoints:
- Creates similar endpoints autonomously
- Follows exact file structure
- Uses same libraries and approaches
- Matches code style automatically

Low-risk tasks:
- Reading files (always safe)
- Adding new files (reversible)
- Generating tests (additive)
- Creating documentation (non-critical)

Clear instructions:
"Add TypeScript types to all function parameters in utils/"
- Scope is clear (utils folder)
- Action is specific (add types)
- Pattern is known (TypeScript)

Always asks approval:
- Deleting files
- Modifying configuration
- Changing security code
- Database migrations
- Deployment scripts

Unclear instructions:
"Make it better" - Better how?
"Fix the issues" - Which issues?
"Update the API" - What changes?

Unfamiliar tasks:
- New library or framework
- Unrecognized pattern
- Complex algorithm
- Novel approach needed

Agent:
1. Analyzes your request
2. Identifies required files
3. Checks learned patterns
4. Calculates confidence
5. Plans approach

"🔍 Analyzing request...
📊 Confidence: 89% (High)
📋 Planning autonomous execution..."

Agent:
1. Reads necessary files
2. Makes required changes
3. Creates new files
4. Updates imports/exports
5. Generates tests

"✏️ Modifying src/components/UserProfile.tsx...
📝 Creating src/types/UserProfile.ts...
🧪 Generating tests...
⚡ Running tests..."

Agent:
1. Runs syntax checks
2. Validates TypeScript types
3. Executes test suite
4. Checks code quality
5. Verifies no regressions

"✅ Syntax check: PASSED
✅ Type check: PASSED
✅ Tests: 15/15 PASSED
✅ Coverage: 94%"

Agent:
1. Summarizes changes
2. Lists modified files
3. Shows test results
4. Notes any issues
5. Suggests next steps

"✅ Task Complete!

Changes:
- Modified: 3 files
- Created: 2 files
- Tests added: 15

All checks passing. Ready for review."

Conservative (0.90-1.0):
- Very few autonomous actions
- Most tasks require approval
- Maximum safety
- Good for: Critical projects, learning phase

Balanced (0.75-0.89):
- Moderate autonomous operation
- Approval for risky changes
- Good balance of speed and safety
- Good for: Most projects (RECOMMENDED)

Aggressive (0.60-0.74):
- Frequent autonomous operation
- Minimal approval requests
- Maximum speed
- Good for: Trusted patterns, experimental projects

Custom:
- Set exact threshold
- Fine-tune to your comfort

Read Operations:
☑ Auto-approve file reading
☑ Auto-approve directory listing
☑ Auto-approve code searches

Write Operations:
☑ Auto-approve file creation
☑ Auto-approve file modification
☐ Auto-approve file deletion

Execute Operations:
☑ Auto-approve allowed commands
☐ Auto-approve all commands

You: "Refactor the authentication system to use a separate AuthService"

Agent: [Confidence: 87% - Complex but familiar pattern]

"Refactoring authentication system...

Phase 1: Analysis
✓ Identified 8 files using auth logic
✓ Mapped all dependencies
✓ Planned extraction strategy

Phase 2: Create Service
✓ Created services/AuthService.ts
✓ Moved auth logic from controllers
✓ Added TypeScript interfaces

Phase 3: Update Consumers
✓ Updated UserController.ts
✓ Updated LoginController.ts
✓ Updated middleware/auth.ts
✓ Updated 5 other files

Phase 4: Testing
✓ Generated 23 new tests
✓ Updated existing tests
✓ All 45 tests passing

Phase 5: Cleanup
✓ Removed duplicate code
✓ Updated imports
✓ Verified no unused code

Refactoring complete!
- Reduced code duplication by 45%
- Improved test coverage to 92%
- All functionality preserved"

Time: 3 minutes
Your involvement: Initial request only

You: "Add a search feature to the products page with filters"

Agent: [Confidence: 91% - Known pattern]

"Implementing search feature...

Step 1: Backend API
✓ Created GET /api/products/search endpoint
✓ Added query parameters: q, category, minPrice, maxPrice
✓ Implemented fuzzy search
✓ Added pagination support

Step 2: Frontend Component
✓ Created SearchBar component
✓ Created FilterPanel component
✓ Added debounced search input
✓ Implemented filter checkboxes

Step 3: State Management
✓ Created useProductSearch hook
✓ Added loading and error states
✓ Implemented cache with SWR

Step 4: Integration
✓ Integrated into ProductsPage
✓ Added URL query sync
✓ Implemented result highlighting

Step 5: Testing
✓ Backend tests: 18 cases
✓ Component tests: 12 cases
✓ Integration tests: 8 cases
✓ All tests passing

Search feature complete!
Try it at /products?q=laptop&category=electronics"

Time: 4 minutes

You: "@mode debug
     Users report that cart totals are sometimes incorrect"

Agent: [Debug Mode - Confidence: 82%]

"Investigating cart total issue...

Phase 1: Evidence Collection
✓ Reviewed error reports
✓ Analyzed cart calculation code
✓ Checked recent changes
✓ Examined test coverage

Phase 2: Hypothesis Generation
1. Race condition in async updates (65%)
2. Floating point precision issue (25%)
3. Tax calculation error (8%)
4. Currency conversion bug (2%)

Phase 3: Investigation
✓ Tested hypothesis #1: CONFIRMED
✓ Found race condition in CartService.updateQuantity

Root Cause:
Multiple simultaneous quantity updates cause state
inconsistency. Last update wins, losing intermediate changes.

Phase 4: Fix Implementation
✓ Added request debouncing
✓ Implemented optimistic updates with rollback
✓ Added version checking
✓ Improved error handling

Phase 5: Verification
✓ Reproduced original bug: FAILED (good!)
✓ Tested edge cases: All passed
✓ Added regression tests: 8 new tests
✓ Load tested: 100 concurrent updates OK

Bug fixed! Cart totals now accurate even with
rapid updates.

Would you like me to add similar fixes to other
components that might have the same issue?"

Time: 5 minutes

Agent: "I was working autonomously but encountered
       an unfamiliar library configuration.

What I was doing:
- Adding React Query for data fetching

Issue:
- Your project uses a custom Query wrapper
- I'm not familiar with the pattern

Options:
1. Show me an example of your Query wrapper usage
2. Let me research the library documentation
3. Implement standard React Query (may not match your pattern)

Which approach should I take?"

Agent: [Started with 88% confidence]

"While implementing the feature, I discovered:
- The User model has a complex validation system
- It's different from what I learned before
- My confidence dropped to 62%

I've completed:
✓ Database schema
✓ Basic API routes

Before I continue with validation, could you confirm:
Should I use the complex User validation pattern or
the simpler Product validation pattern?"

Agent: "I was about to modify the authentication
       middleware autonomously, but I detected:

Risk Factors:
- Changes affect all protected routes
- Security-critical code
- No existing tests for this specific middleware

Pausing for approval.

Proposed changes:
[Shows diff]

These changes would affect 47 API endpoints.
Should I proceed?"

You: "Create a user API endpoint with:
- RESTful routes
- Joi validation
- JWT auth
- Standardized error responses
- 80% test coverage

Use this exact pattern for all future API endpoints."

You: "@src/components/Button.tsx
     This is our standard component pattern.
     Use this structure for all new components."

File 1: Uses async/await
File 2: Uses .then/.catch
File 3: Uses callbacks

All files: Use async/await consistently

You: "Perfect! This is exactly our pattern.
     Always do API endpoints this way."

🔄 Autonomous execution in progress...

Current: Generating tests for UserService
Progress: 3/5 steps complete

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14:32:15 - Read src/services/UserService.ts
14:32:16 - Analyzed service methods (5 methods)
14:32:17 - Generated test template
14:32:18 - Created tests/UserService.test.ts
14:32:19 - Running tests...
14:32:21 - ✓ All 12 tests passing

Autonomous Task Complete

Duration: 2m 34s
Operations: 15
Files modified: 4
Tests added: 12
Approvals needed: 0

Changes ready for review.
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Agent: "Autonomous execution encountered test failures.

Automatically rolling back changes...
✓ Restored original files
✓ Cleared test artifacts

Issue: Type error in generated code
Confidence was too high for this task.

Would you like me to:
1. Try again with manual approval steps
2. Explain what went wrong
3. Research the correct approach"

Agent runs:
✓ Syntax validation
✓ Type checking
✓ Test suite
✓ Lint checks
✓ Import verification

Any failure = automatic rollback