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Designing the human in the loop

The review queue is the most important screen in any agent rollout. Here is how we design it.

By Ishaan Varma · 10 Sept 2026

An agent is only as trustworthy as the moment it hands work to a person. If that moment is confusing, people stop reviewing carefully, and errors slip through.

Show the reasoning, not just the answer

Every item in the queue should show what the agent saw, what it decided and how confident it was. Reviewers approve faster when they can see the working.

Make the right action the easy one

Approve, edit and reject should each be a single click. Editing should feed back into the agent's evaluation set so the same mistake does not repeat.

Route by confidence and risk

Low-risk, high-confidence actions can run on their own. Anything involving money, health or legal exposure goes to a person regardless of confidence.

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