Running agents on a schedule — how much do you let them do unattended?

For those running agents on a recurring schedule (daily/overnight), I'm tightening my own setup and curious how you handle two things:

Stale or wrong context — how do you stop a scheduled run from acting on yesterday's state or drifting from the current workspace? Cold start every time, a freshness check, something else?
Autonomy vs approval — how much do you let a scheduled agent actually do unattended versus leave as a draft for you to approve? Where's your line between "just do it" and "prepare it and wait for me"?

Mine currently drafts everything and waits for a human yes, but I suspect I'm leaving easy wins on the table by not letting it act on the safe stuff. Where do you draw the line, and what burned you?

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Running agents on a schedule — how much do you let them do unattended?