Deferred write

escritura diferida

A pattern where the agent leaves the action ready in a state that has no effect and a person confirms it. Technically it writes, but nothing has happened yet.

The email drafted in the outbox, the order created in draft status, the journal entry proposed and not posted. It is the first of three middle patterns between read-only and direct write, and the one that clears an approval committee fastest: there is nothing to undo because nothing has happened. Its cost is a person confirming, cheap at low volume and expensive exactly when the system has proven it gets it right, which is the signal to move up a rung.