Support replies with a confidence ladder and handoff packet
A tier one agent drafts an answer from the help centre and declares what it could not support. A separate reviewer that did not write the draft scores it. High scores are ready to send, middle scores ask one follow-up question or hold for a person, and low scores produce a handoff packet written for the colleague who takes over.
What it does
- Classifies category, severity and risk, and flags anything needing account data it cannot see
- Retrieves help centre articles and routes legal, security, churn and money cases straight to a person
- Drafts a reply and lists what it could not support
- Has a second call that did not write the draft critique it, then checks that cited articles exist
- Writes a handoff packet for the colleague when confidence is low
Your approval boundaries
Approval requiredThese actions always wait for your yes:
- Sending any reply to the customer
- Asking the customer a follow-up question
- Anything above the money approval line or with pasted secrets
You decide what happens next.
More about this workflow
This setup is for support leads and small teams who answer customers every day. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.
First, it classifies category, severity and risk, and flags anything needing account data it cannot see. Next, it retrieves help centre articles and routes legal, security, churn and money cases straight to a person. Then it drafts a reply and lists what it could not support. After that, it has a second call that did not write the draft critique it, then checks that cited articles exist. Finally, it writes a handoff packet for the colleague when confidence is low. It works with your help desk, knowledge base and docs, 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 sending any reply to the customer, asking the customer a follow-up question and anything above the money approval line or with pasted secrets, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.
“The interesting artifact here is the handoff packet, not the answer.”
Explore required tools and model recommendations
Tools and access
Zendesk
Handles the help desk part of this job. Grant a limited agent seat that writes internal notes.
API required: Yes. Needs an API token or OAuth client created by a Zendesk admin.
Notion
Handles the knowledge base part of this job. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.
API required: Yes. Needs a Notion integration. You choose which pages it can see by sharing them with it.
Google Docs
Handles the docs part of this job. Grant one folder, create and edit only.
API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud OAuth app with the Docs API turned on.
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Model recommendations
Best pick
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Writes careful replies and reads long ticket threads.
$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens.
Anthropic docs as of October 11, 2026
Cheaper backup
Claude Haiku 5.5
Made for sorting and routing at high volume.
From $0.10 per million input tokens and from $0.50 per million output tokens.
Anthropic docs as of October 11, 2026
Our own picks. Not sponsored, no affiliate links.
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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.
- 1Connect Zendesk with its own login, not yours. Grant a limited agent seat that writes internal notes.
- 2Connect Notion with its own login, not yours. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.
- 3Connect Google Docs with its own login, not yours. Grant one folder, create and edit only.
- 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.
Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.
Waits for a yes on: sending any reply to the customer, asking the customer a follow-up question, anything above the money approval line or with pasted secrets.
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
- Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
- 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 78.
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