AGT-05 · Human-in-the-loop: approve, edit, reject, time out and audit¶
Approval steps are bolted on late, so decisions get lost, threads cannot resume after a deploy and risk teams cannot see who approved what. Queues back up and agents wait forever because nobody planned for timeouts.
- Who reads it: GenAI engineers building approval flows, DevOps engineers running them, and risk and compliance reviewers
- Outcome: Every risky action approved, audited and never stuck
- Pack owner: James (catalog owner role: Agent Lead)
Master catalog entry¶
- Catalog name: Human-in-the-Loop Interrupt Patterns (P1)
- Why it matters: The control that makes agents acceptable to risk and compliance teams
- What it removes: Approval, escalation and resume flows already designed
- Stack: LangGraph interrupts, checkpointers, Teams and email approval
- Maturity target: Level 3 — approve, edit, reject and timeout paths with audit trail
Playbooks¶
| ID | Story | Title | Kind | Complexity | Urgency | Status | Owner | Planned publish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB-AGT-05-01 | AGT-05-S1 | Build approve, edit, reject and timeout paths with LangGraph interrupts | How-to | Medium | 4 | draft | Sanjay Sarvesh | 2026-11-24 |
| PB-AGT-05-02 | AGT-05-S2 | Deliver approvals in Teams or email and resume the agent from a callback | How-to | High | 3 | draft | James | 2026-12-03 |
| PB-AGT-05-03 | AGT-05-S3 | Clear an approval queue backlog and handle timeouts | Runbook | Medium | 5 | draft | James | 2026-11-05 |
| PB-AGT-05-04 | AGT-05-S4 | Resume or recover paused threads after a deploy or graph change | Runbook | High | 4 | draft | Deeparani | 2026-11-16 |
| PB-AGT-05-05 | AGT-05-S5 | HITL audit trail and compliance sign-off checklist | Checklist | Low | 3 | draft | Sanjay Sarvesh | 2026-12-03 |