Human Approval & Safety Review

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AI Safety Gate approvals are a human-in-the-loop safety checkpoint.

Your app never “guesses” its way past a WARN.

• PASS → continue automatically.
• WARN → pause and wait for human approval.
• BLOCK → stop permanently.

When you receive WARN, your app must:

• Pause execution before the irreversible step.
• Poll for approval.
• Resume only after polling returns { "approved": true }.

Approval polling requires the approval token to be sent in headers (X-Approval-Token or Authorization: Bearer ...).

Important clarifications:

• Approval happens outside your app.
• Customers do not approve actions inside their own execution flow.
• No approval means no continuation.

• If approval never comes, your app must stop (do not execute).
• If polling fails, your app must stop (do not execute).
• A timeout is not approval.

Approvals expire automatically; expired approvals must be treated as not approved.