You set the lane first. Design from brand, then a human approve. A publish path that runs to a draft, then you look. A reply that may go when it sits on facts you already wrote.
The tool runs the path. You keep the exceptions: live publish, a one-off, anything outside the lane. That is not a loss of control. That is control.
If you cannot name what may run and what you still approve, the work is not ready for a tool yet. Split it. Then let the path run.
You say what the tool may do. Then it does that. You keep judgment.
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