Before an AI agent receives authority to publish, verify the product boundary around it. The goal is simple: let the agent do useful work without giving a conversation unrestricted provider credentials or making ambiguous public writes.
The ten-minute check
1. Identify the operator
Find the legal company, address, contact route, terms, and privacy policy. You are granting account access to an operator, not a feature label.
2. Confirm the intended account model
Is the service designed for your own personal or company accounts, an agency’s client accounts, or an embedded customer-facing product? Tenant boundaries and consent differ.
3. Inspect the OAuth screen
Check the provider, requested permissions, publishing identity, and revocation path. Do not paste provider access tokens into the agent if a browser-based authorization flow exists.
4. Scope the product credential
Understand which Workspace, accounts, and actions the API key or agent session can reach. Create a dedicated, revocable credential where possible.
5. Find the public-write checkpoint
Determine whether a person confirms the exact content, destinations, media, and timing before publication. A generic client prompt is weaker than a product rule bound to the resource being sent.
6. Test one harmless draft and one bounded Post
Use a low-risk account and content. Verify preview, confirmation, returned Post ID, per-Destination state, and provider result. Do not begin with a multi-network campaign.
7. Ask what a timeout means
The service should explain how to look up the original request and when a retry is safe. If the answer is only “try again,” a duplicate Post is possible.
8. Check how access is revoked
You should be able to revoke the product credential, provider connection, and webhook secret independently. Record where those controls live before you need them.
9. Review data handling
Separate where the application stores data from where selected social providers process published content. Check processors, retention, and international transfers instead of relying on one regional hosting label.
10. Preserve evidence
Keep the request ID, stable Post ID, final provider receipt, and any per-Destination error. “The tool returned success” is not enough to reconcile a public action.
Then expand the review
This quick check is for the access decision. The full 15-point production-readiness checklist covers idempotency, concurrency, partial failure, signed webhooks, stable errors, versioning, and change management.
You can also inspect OpenPMM Trust for a concrete example of how one operator documents these boundaries. OpenPMM supports compatible agents through a hosted MCP server with browser-based OAuth, alongside direct API and CLI workflows, so review the same credential and confirmation boundary whichever interface you use.