... tooling is built for the reversible coding case and quietly breaks when you point it at agents that act in the world. Aadil does Pushary let you gate specifically on irreversibility (this step touches the outside world always ask) vs gate-everything? That selective ask is the whole game for real-world agents. Comment from Dogan Akbulut(@doganakbulut): @malani_willa   That's a clean approach for high-stakes work. The tradeoff is speed, but the focus you gain ... ... state delta is zero across N steps, that's loop-coded. legitimate retry is usually paired with a side effect (status check, partial commit, etc). the false-positive case you flagged, "correctly trying three times", is exactly where the exponential