Notes from the gate.
Field notes on human-in-the-loop control, fail-closed design, and tamper-evident audit for autonomous AI agents.
Add a human approval step to your agent in one call
A practical walkthrough — wrap a risky agent action with gate.require(), route it to Slack, and enforce the verdict. Fail-closed, audited, and framework-agnostic.
Read →Approval by exception: what actually needs a human
Gating every agent action defeats the point of automation. Approval by exception routes only the irreversible, high-stakes calls to a person — decided by policy, not hardcoded.
Read →Why autonomous agents need a human off-switch
Autonomous agents are great until they do something irreversible. Human-in-the-loop approvals give you a fail-closed off-switch without slowing the agent down.
Read →What makes an audit trail actually tamper-evident
A log you can edit is not evidence. Here's what hash-chaining, atomic commits, and append-only guarantees really buy you — and how Seal enforces them.
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