A Lightweight Alternative to Workflow Engines for HITL

Описание и применение

Небольшой API‑гейт для одобрения публикации, который избавляет от необходимости использовать тяжелые движки рабочих процессов.

Задача

Automating content pipelines often requires a single human approval gate, but using full workflow engines like n8n or Temporal is overkill and adds unnecessary complexity.

Результат

A lightweight, API‑driven approval gate that eliminates the need for a full workflow engine, keeping the pipeline simple and maintainable.

Рабочий процесс

• Generate blog post with existing agent
• Call Impri API to create a pending action with title, preview, and expiry
• Poll Impri API until status changes from pending
• If approved, publish to blog and cross‑post to X; if rejected or expired, skip publishing

Доказательства

If you only need one human checkpoint in an otherwise automated agent pipeline, standing up n8n or Temporal for that single yes/no is overkill — Impri adds the approval gate as three API calls with no workflow engine to run.

Источник

Three things: somewhere to park the pending action, a way to notify a human, and a way for your existing script to resume once a decision exists.

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