Oversight in motion
Mid-flight steering
Mid-flight steering is changing an agent’s plan while it runs, without restarting, along three axes: editing meaning or structure, targeting one branch or the whole plan, and working at a high or low level of detail.
Control sits with both parties
When to use it
Long-running work where new information arrives after the brief, and any plan the person can see going wrong before it fails.
What it prevents
The binary between letting a wrong run finish and killing it to start over.
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Unaffected, kept - 5Now: exclude anything behind a login
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Same goal, different route
The alternative was to let a wrong run finish, or kill it and start again.
Where it stands
Some agents already accept a correction in natural language during a run. Changing the structure of a plan while it runs is still mostly a research topic.
Sources
Related patterns: Editable plan · Take over and hand back