Human-in-the-Loop Approvals
Add safe checkpoints to autonomous workflows where a human reviews or approves risky actions before the agent proceeds, balancing automation with control.
Why Pause for Humans
Full autonomy is risky for high-stakes actions: sending money, deleting records, emailing customers. A mistake can be costly and irreversible.
Human-in-the-loop (HITL) inserts an approval step so a person confirms before the agent acts.
Where to Add Checkpoints
You do not need approval everywhere — only at sensitive points:
- Before destructive or irreversible operations
- Before external side effects (payments, emails)
- When the agent's confidence is low
Read-only steps can stay fully automatic.
All lessons in this course
- Designing Complex Workflows
- Asynchronous Agent Execution
- Error Handling & Resilience
- Human-in-the-Loop Approvals