Built a complete HITL System at my ORG
Summary
The author shares experience building a human-in-the-loop approval system for an enterprise agent platform, emphasizing that the approval step must be a true blocking pause with editable parameters and first-class rejection/editing outcomes, and asks how others structure agent suspension.
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