Can an agent approve its own work?

Two things stand in the way.

• The contract. Quasar's agent contract tells every agent to accept a document or a release revision only on a person's explicit word. Every acceptance is recorded with whose key made it, and whether an agent acted.
• The workflow. It can require conditions an agent cannot fake:
  • a verified plan;
  • the code having actually reached a branch;
  • time logged.

To keep a key from accepting at all, give the agent a key whose owner is not a project lead, or a read-only key.