Approval Queue
Queue agent-proposed actions for asynchronous human review while the agent continues other work.
Intent & Description
🎯 Intent
Queue agent-proposed actions for asynchronous human review while the agent continues other work.
📋 Context
A team is operating a long-running agent product that performs many actions per session — sending emails, posting messages, opening tickets, scheduling meetings — where a non-trivial fraction of those actions need a human to look at them before they ship. Stopping the entire agent loop after every proposed action while a human gets around to clicking approve would reduce throughput to a trickle and waste the parallelism the agent could otherwise exploit.
💡 Solution
Agent emits proposed action to an approval queue with context. A human (or supervisor agent) reviews the queue and approves or rejects. Approved actions are executed by the agent or by a runner. The agent can continue parallel work while waiting; some workflows pause specific branches.
Real-world Use Case
- Some agent actions require human review but blocking the agent until review completes is unacceptable.
- Reviewers (humans or supervisor agents) can process queued actions asynchronously.
- The agent has parallel work it can pursue while specific branches await approval.
Source
Advantages
- Human oversight without blocking throughput.
- Approval inbox is auditable.
Disadvantages
- Inbox fatigue at scale.
- World drift between proposal and approval.