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GhostApproval

Interactive simulator showing 4 ways AI agents silently bypass human approval gates and execute catastrophic actions.

A dark-themed 3-panel simulator where 5 high-stakes tasks—from 847-recipient email blasts to $47K wire transfers—run through approval gates that fail in 4 distinct ways: HTTP 202 confusion, timeout default-allow, swallowed exceptions, and cached approval chains. Each mode shows real-time damage logging and reveals defensive Python fixes after the run. Agent Failure Series #17.

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