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Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
Designing the workflow so that a person approves specific actions (usually irreversible ones) before they execute. In a durable agent, the approval is a state the run waits in, and the approval is recorded in the trace.
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All matching postsDurable Execution for Agents: Checkpointing, Resume, and Human-in-the-Loop
A five-step agent that crashes at step four should resume at step four, not start over. Here is what durable execution means for agents, two ways to get it (graph checkpointing and workflow engines), and why a human approval should be a saved state rather than a blocking prompt.
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