Claude Code Approval Gates: Keep a Human in the Loop AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor are becoming standard in engineering workflows — writing migrations, cleaning directories, running database operations, often with minimal oversight. That is mostly fine. Until it is not. The Problem: Confidence Without Brakes The risk is not malice, it is confidence. Claude Code suggests DROP TABLE users in the same tone it uses to rename a variable. If you are not watching when it runs, you find out later. Most teams have no formal process for approving destructive commands — they rely on whoever is at the keyboard to catch problems in real time. Which Commands Need a Pause Button DROP , TRUNCATE , DELETE FROM database operations rm -rf recursive deletion git push --force or direct pushes to main Anything touching .env files or production credentials How AgentGate Works A proxy CLI sits between your agent and the shell. Low-risk commands pass through.…