TREE NEWS update: Doubao Phone Assistant launched a Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) and began a 30-day public comment period on the rules. Under the protocol, third-party apps can declare their own operating boundaries, explicitly allowing or refusing screen automation by the AI assistant within their apps. Doubao said it will fully respect developers’ wishes and will not perform automated operations in apps that explicitly refuse them.
Doubao Phone Assistant Launches SAEP Screen Automation Consent Protocol
AI take
The significance here is governance, not capability: an AI assistant is ceding control over where it can act, letting third parties set the boundary rather than having it imposed unilaterally. That matters for developers weighing automation against their own terms of service and interface integrity, and for users whose screens become the contested surface. The 30-day comment window is the real signal — whether app-level consent becomes a norm other assistants adopt, or stays a single-vendor gesture, is the open question.
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