Enterprise AI Glossary · Reviewed June 2026
Approval Workflow (Human-in-the-Loop)
A required human decision point inside an agent workflow before a sensitive action is taken.
What is Approval Workflow (Human-in-the-Loop)?
An approval workflow pauses an agent before a high-impact step — sending a customer email, modifying a record, escalating a case — and routes the proposed action to a human reviewer. Approvals should be enforced in the orchestrator, not at the UI, so they cannot be bypassed by a different caller. See Human-in-the-Loop and AI Agent Governance.
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