Approvals and connected records
Authority limits and the relationships between records.
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How can an approval limit be turned into an evaluation task?
Claim: positioning · Evidence: editorial · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-11-08
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.
Why do records need to be connected?
A decision affects an application, its policy and downstream work.
Claim: positioning · Evidence: editorial · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-11-08
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?