Human-in-the-Loop

A human gate is a strong control — and an expensive one. Place it where the cost matches the risk.

The default mistakes are equal and opposite: gate everything (the agent is a slow button), or gate nothing (the agent ships an irreversible mistake). Design the gates on a per-action basis, by failure cost, with the human's time treated as a scarce resource.

When to use this skill

• The user is building an agent that takes real-world actions (money, messages, data changes).
• The user is in a regulated workflow (healthcare, legal, finance, HR).
• The user reports "the agent did something bad once" and is reaching for blanket approval gates.
• The user reports "approval gates everywhere are killing throughput".

Tier the actions

Not all actions need humans. Classify before designing.