# Approvals And Connected Records

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## How can an approval limit be turned into an evaluation task?

Test when an agent should act and when it should escalate.

An approval is also a question of authority. An illustrative task can test when an agent should act and when it should escalate.

Illustrative scenario (fictional): a reviewer limit is 100000 and application APP-1042 requests 125000. The expected action is to escalate rather than approve.

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## Why do records need to be connected?

A decision affects an application, its policy and downstream work.

A decision affects more than one row. Model the relationships between an application, its policy, the decision and downstream work.

Evaluation question: starting from a downstream record, can you follow identifiers back to the decision, the policy and the application?

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