Atomic Glue — The Approval Nobody Reads · Figure 2 of 5
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Fig. 02

Approval became a reflex

Sources: Anthropic engineering blog, March 2026; The Register, August 2026.
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Three statistics: 93 percent of prompts accepted, 1 in 3 malicious requests approved, about 65 percent approval for the most-missed malicious command.