New hire access plan from a role matrix with two approvals
When a hire webhook arrives, code builds a least privilege access plan from a role matrix and the model only fills in words. People Ops approves the plan, and IT must also approve any admin or production access. Accounts are created without duplicates and rehires are reactivated rather than recreated.
What it does
- Builds the access plan from the role matrix in code, not from the model
- Checks for an existing account and reactivates rehires
- Holds unknown job titles for a person instead of guessing
- Drafts the welcome note and the summary for approvers
- Ignores free text notes that try to change the plan
Your approval boundaries
Creates draftsThese actions always wait for your yes:
- Every access grant, which People Ops approves
- Admin or production access, which also needs IT
- Any account creation, and nothing happens on a timeout or no answer
You decide what happens next.
More about this workflow
This setup is for operators and managers who keep the busywork moving. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.
First, it builds the access plan from the role matrix in code, not from the model. Next, it checks for an existing account and reactivates rehires. Then it holds unknown job titles for a person instead of guessing. After that, it drafts the welcome note and the summary for approvers. Finally, it ignores free text notes that try to change the plan. It works with your HR tool, chat and automation platform, each on its own login with limited access.
You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before every access grant, which People Ops approves, admin or production access, which also needs IT and any account creation, and nothing happens on a timeout or no answer, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.
“code decides, a person approves, evals block bad changes”
Explore required tools and model recommendations
Tools and access
HR tool
Handles the hr tool part of this job. Grant read-only access to the new hire record.
API required: Optional. Use whatever HR system you already run. Many offer an API or CSV export.
No sign-up neededSlack
Handles the chat part of this job. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.
API required: Yes. Needs a Slack app created in your workspace. It gets a bot token with the scopes you approve.
n8n
Handles the automation platform part of this job. Grant create workflows, left inactive until reviewed.
API required: Yes. Needs an n8n API key from settings. New workflows should stay inactive until you review them.
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Model recommendations
Best pick
GPT-6.1 Sol
Cheap cached input suits jobs that rerun the same instructions each week.
$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens. Longer prompts cost $4 in and $15 out.
OpenAI docs as of October 11, 2026
Cheaper backup
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Low cost for simple data pulls and matching.
$0.30 per million input tokens, $2.50 per million output tokens.
Google docs as of October 11, 2026
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Run your workflow
Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.
Steps
Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.
- 1Set up HR tool. Keep it to read-only access to the new hire record.
- 2Connect Slack with its own login, not yours. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.
- 3Connect n8n with its own login, not yours. Grant create workflows, left inactive until reviewed.
- 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
- 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
- 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.
Safeguards and trust score
The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.
Writes drafts and notes inside your tools, nothing leaves on its own.
Waits for a yes on: every access grant, which people ops approves, admin or production access, which also needs it, any account creation, and nothing happens on a timeout or no answer.
Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.
Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.
How to raise it
- Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
- Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2
Do all of these to reach 89, up from 84.
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