Engineering and product notes from the Waveguide team: agent security, honest metering, missions, and what it takes to trust an AI with real accounts.https://waveguide.adwave.com/https://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/missions-goals-not-tasks/https://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/missions-goals-not-tasks/Task-based AI does what you say and stops. A mission is a goal your agent pursues for weeks — research, outreach, replies, booked meetings — inside rails that make autonomy safe.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/honest-metering/https://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/honest-metering/How an always-on agent stays affordable: route every job to the cheapest model that does it well, suspend the machine between wakes, and bound the worst-case bill by construction.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/approvals-by-construction/https://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/approvals-by-construction/Every action your agent takes is classified into one of four risk tiers, and the dangerous ones physically require a human. Here's the taxonomy and why it's enforced in the network layer.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/model-never-holds-a-credential/https://waveguide.adwave.com/blog/model-never-holds-a-credential/The single design decision that makes Waveguide trustable with real accounts: OAuth tokens live in a vault, and a proxy injects them after the request leaves the model.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT