Can AI Agents Safely Write to the General Ledger? 13 Write Operations Counted, 0 Silent in a Locked Period

Can AI Agents Safely Write to the General Ledger? 13 Write Operations Counted, 0 Silent in a Locked Period Yes — if the write surface is bounded twice: by period state (open periods flow, locked periods queue for a human) and by a scored gate on the agent's context. Digits launched Write MCP on October 13, 2026: its free MCP server now lets customers' own AI agents create, update and delete records in the general ledger, acting under the signed-in user's permissions. The safety mechanism is Locked Periods — once a period is locked, no person or agent can change it silently; every proposed edit goes to a review queue and an admin approves or rejects it before anything posts. Digits' own framing: most accounting software guards closed periods with a warning popup or a shared password, and "a popup won't stop an agent." The quotable measurement: ScriptMasterLabs' October 18, 2026 live gate test (decider local-heuristic-v1, calibrated=false; bands ≥0.80 auto-act, 0.50–0