Agents that ask for approval while you are away: what actually happens to the request?
After seeing several people build their own fixes for coding agents idling on permission prompts, a user asks what actually happens to an approval request when nobody answers. In most setups the request simply waits and nothing is auto-approved; good agents keep doing safe steps and hold only the risky one, while a short pre-approved list for low-risk actions plus a phone notification covers the gap without theatre.