Glossary
Approval-as-an-API
A hosted service that adds a human approval step to any action through a single API or SDK call — handling routing to a reviewer, verdict enforcement, and audit logging so you don't build them yourself.
Related terms
- Human-in-the-loop (HITL)
A control pattern where a person must approve or reject a system's action before it takes effect. For AI agents, it mean…
- Fail-closed
A safety default where any unknown, missing, or malformed input resolves to the restrictive outcome. In an approval gate…
- Tamper-evident audit log
An append-only record where each entry is cryptographically hash-chained to the previous one. Any modification to a past…