Human in the loop and approval flows
By the end of today you can decide which actions require a person's approval, design an approval that a tired human will actually read, and explain why approval fatigue makes over-asking as dangerous as never asking.
YesterdayOn Day 78 you classified tools by reversibility and said the dangerous ones need approval. Today you design that properly.
TomorrowTomorrow, multiple agents, and what coordination actually costs.
Why this matters
Approval is the last line between a probabilistic system and an irreversible action. Designed badly it becomes a button people click reflexively, which is worse than having no gate at all.
- Approval gates
- Approval fatigue
- Reversibility
- Audit trails
Learn it
70 minCopy this into Claude or ChatGPT. It quizzes you before it explains anything, which is deliberate. The resources under it are how you check what it told you.
Today's Master Prompt
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Check it against something that is not a model
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3 hand-picked resources
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Build it
50 minAdd an approval gate to the most consequential tool in your agent. Write the approval request so someone who has not been watching can decide in ten seconds. Make the agent pause, persist its state, and resume on the answer. Then implement a denial that tells the agent why, and confirm it adapts rather than retrying the same thing.
Recall it
25 minAnswer out loud, reveal, then mark honestly whether you had it. That score is the only thing on this page you do not get to choose.
5 recall questions
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Recap
- 01Approval is for the irreversible, not for ordinary mistakes
- 02A gate that fires constantly becomes a reflex and protects nothing
- 03State the action, the target and the consequence, or it will not be read
- 04Limits, dry runs and undo often beat asking a person
Your progress
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