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# Working safely with agents
Agents work through Laioutr MCP in the same Studio document as the team, with the rights of the signed-in account. Work stays safe with small, clear requests, a review in Studio and the rule that a person always publishes.
## Before you start
- Plan
- All plans
- Duration
- 4 min
### Prerequisites
- Laioutr MCP connected
Last reviewed on October 15, 2026
An agent connected through **Laioutr MCP** writes to the same shared document that Studio uses. There is no generated file to import and no separate patch. Anyone with Studio open at the same time sees the agent as a participant and each of its changes immediately.
Three limits are built in:
- The agent acts with the rights of the signed-in account and cannot see projects that account cannot access.
- Laioutr MCP cannot publish. Publishing remains a human action in Studio, and the live page does not change until then.
- The agent does not create pages or variants, does not create or detach global sections and does not write values bound to a query.
So the Laioutr principle applies to agents as well: agents edit, propose and optimise, and a person decides and publishes. The working rules below make this control easy in daily work.
## Step by step
1. 1 ### Step 1: Read first, then write
Ask the agent to inspect current values and schemas before it changes anything.
2. 2 ### Step 2: Keep requests focused
Phrase one request per change so the result can be reviewed in context.
3. 3 ### Step 3: Confirm deletions
Explicitly confirm the request before the agent deletes sections or blocks.
4. 4 ### Step 4: Review in Studio
Look at every change in Studio in all languages and on desktop and mobile.
5. 5 ### Step 5: Publish after review
Publish with **Publish** only after the review in Studio.
## Frequently asked questions
Can an agent publish?
No. Laioutr MCP cannot publish. The agent's changes stay in the draft until a person clicks **Publish** in Studio.
Can the team see what the agent is changing?
Yes. The agent works in the shared Studio document. An open Studio lists it as a participant and shows its changes live.
What rights does an agent have?
Exactly the rights of the account used to sign in the connection. Use an account with a suitable role for agents, not an admin account by default.
What if an agent changes something wrong?
The live page is not affected as long as nobody publishes. Correct the change in Studio or ask the agent to restore the values it read before.
## Related
- [Connect Laioutr MCP to an AI assistant](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/connect-laioutr-mcp-to-an-ai-assistant)5 min
Laioutr MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another MCP client to Laioutr projects via OAuth. Once Laioutr has enabled it, signing in with the Laioutr account is enough; no API key is needed.
- [Preview and publish changes in Studio](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/preview-and-publish-changes-in-studio)5 min
Studio saves changes as a draft and shows them instantly in the live preview. Publish in the top bar takes the saved state to the storefront through a deployment of the environment.
- [Assign roles and permissions](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/assign-roles-and-permissions)6 min
Roles decide what a member can see and do in Cockpit. Besides the built-in roles Owner, Developer, Project Manager and Content Manager, the organisation defines custom roles with selected permissions under Roles and assigns them when inviting.
## Learn it in a lesson
- [People and agents: who edits, who publishes](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/foundations-people-and-agents)8 min
- [Working with agents](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/frontend-manager-working-with-agents)12 min
- [Connecting agents: MCP, permissions and LLM key](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/developer-connecting-agents)14 min
- [Designing with agents](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/ux-designer-designing-with-agents)12 min
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1. [Connect Laioutr MCP to an AI assistant](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/connect-laioutr-mcp-to-an-ai-assistant)5 min
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