Human-in-the-loop
Where it sits in the kitchen
Set moments where the owner steps in to approve, correct or take over the chef's work, such as saying OK before an order is placed.
Definition
Explicit points where a person approves, corrects or takes over an agent's work. Human oversight is most valuable at actions that are costly or hard to undo, and least valuable when approvals are so frequent that nobody reads them.
Detailed technical description
The harness pauses at defined points and waits for a person: before running a command, sending a message, spending money or changing data. The person sees what the agent plans to do and can approve, edit or refuse. Approval can be given once, for a class of actions, or for the rest of a session, which trades control for speed.
The design question is where to put the pauses. Gating everything wears people out and invites rubber-stamping, as in approval-fatigue. Gating nothing leaves the person to find mistakes afterwards. Place checks before irreversible or external actions, show the real action and not a summary of it, and make the safe path the default. Log each decision in an audit-log.