Human-in-the-loop is a design feature: enforcing approval gates for AI agents on MuleSoft

Description and use

<p><em>Companion to Part 1 · Building an Agentic Change-Approval MVP on MuleSoft</em></p> <p>When people demo agentic systems, the human approval step is often treated as an embarrassment: the bit we'll automate away later.</p> <p>In a regulated process it's the opposite. The approval <em>is</em> the product. Auditors, quality teams and your change advisory board rely on it. The question isn't how to remove it, but how to design it so it's fast, hard to bypass and fully traceable.</p> <p>This post walks through the pattern we use in our change-approval MVP for promoting SAP changes to producti

Problem

<p><em>Companion to Part 1 · Building an Agentic Change-Approval MVP on MuleSoft</em></p> <p>When people demo agentic systems, the human approval step is often treated as an embarrassment: the bit we'll automate away later.</p> <p>In a regulated process it's the opposite. The approval <em>is</em> the product. Auditors, quality teams and your change advisory board rely on it. The question isn't how to remove it, but how to design it so it's fast, hard to bypass and fully traceable.</p> <p>This post walks through the pattern we use in our change-approval MVP for promoting SAP changes to producti

Outcome

<p><em>Companion to Part 1 · Building an Agentic Change-Approval MVP on MuleSoft</em></p> <p>When people demo agentic systems, the human approval step is often treated as an embarrassment: the bit we'll automate away later.</p> <p>In a regulated process it's the opposite. The approval <em>is</em> the product. Auditors, quality teams and your change advisory board rely on it. The question isn't how to remove it, but how to design it so it's fast, hard to bypass and fully traceable.</p> <p>This post walks through the pattern we use in our change-approval MVP for promoting SAP changes to producti

Evidence

Human-in-the-loop is a design feature: enforcing approval gates for AI agents on MuleSoft

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