2026-07-20
Design Human-Review Gates That Pause the Loop Without Stalling It
Place approval nodes where judgment is cheap to request and expensive to undo, then keep a clear resume path on the canvas.
← Back to BlogHuman review is valuable when the cost of a wrong automated step is high, but poorly placed gates freeze the whole loop. In LoopCraft, treat approval as a first-class node: put it after synthesis or before irreversible tool calls, attach a short approval prompt, and draw an explicit resume edge back into the happy path. Pair the gate with an optional or fallback branch so a timeout does not leave the graph hanging. Export only after dry run shows both the approved and the declined routes. The 2026-07-20 export preview helps by listing which nodes pause for humans versus which ones retry automatically. Visual placement does not replace production audit logs, but it is the cheapest way to keep human judgment where it belongs.
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