{"version":"2.1.257","anchor":"shutdown-request-auto-approval-helper-text-for-agents","canonical_anchor":"shutdown-request-auto-approval-helper-text-for-agents","heading":"Shutdown-request auto-approval helper text for agents","tier":"soon","area":"Agents","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257\/e\/shutdown-request-auto-approval-helper-text-for-agents","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257","markdown":"### Shutdown-request auto-approval helper text for agents\n\nNew instructions tell an agent how to approve or refuse a pending shutdown request by tool call rather than plain text.\n\nNew generated instructions tell an agent exactly how to respond to a pending `shutdown_request`: call a specific tool with a JSON message containing the shutdown's `request_id` and `approve` set to true or false. The text notes that a plain-text acknowledgment does not actually shut the process down.\n\n- Area: Agents\n- Names: `shutdown_request`, `request_id`, `approve`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}