Approval gate
Also known as: approval checkpoint · human approval
An approval gate is a checkpoint where the agent pauses a specific action until a human or policy explicitly approves it.
- Gates sit before high-stakes actions: payments, deletions, sends.
- The agent can’t proceed past the gate on its own.
- A simple, high-leverage safety control.
The design principle: put a gate wherever an action is hard to undo. Reversibility is the line: reversible actions can run free, irreversible ones get a gate.