Human-in-the-Loop: Designing the Human Back In

Where human judgment enters the agent loop — the gate spectrum from notify-after to co-draft, which actions deserve gates, why approvals must show the literal tool call, how to pause and resume a run durably, and how to make escalation a designed success.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. The gate spectrum
  2. What to gate — and what to leave alone
  3. The exact-parameters rule
  4. Interrupt and resume
  5. Escalation: handing the task back