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Approval gating at Client-side hooks

This layer is deterministic-when-invoked.

PreToolUse pattern hooks, tiered config, typed confirmation for tier-3, out-of-band for highest tier, judgment-query escalation.

How it is still bypassed

  • alert fatigue
  • pattern evasion (kubectl scale --replicas=0)
  • flat workflows degrade fastest

Maps to

NIST CSF 2.0
PR.AA-05, PR.PS-01
NIST AI RMF
MANAGE 4.1
OWASP LLM
LLM06
OWASP Agentic
ASI02, ASI09
Other
OWASP Agentic Least Agency, Russell 2019 (assistance games)

Enforcement

controls/approval-gating/client-side/