Trust is earned, not given. Agents climb a ladder: watch, suggest, draft, act with undo. Good work moves an agent up, a correction moves it back, and you set a limit it can never cross.
Each step up is backed by a visible record: approvals collected, clean runs completed. You can inspect exactly why an agent has the freedom it has.
The ceiling is yours: cap an agent at drafting and it drafts forever, no matter how good its record gets. The full mechanics are at falkster.ai/answers/approval-tiers.