Running automation agents for a while now. Most work fine hands-off. But one of them - my project status agent - kept making decisions that felt right in isolation but wrong in context.
So I added a human approval step. Not a "review and confirm" UI widget. An actual veto gate in the workflow itself: the agent drafts the action, pauses, and waits for my explicit go-ahead before doing anything irreversible.
Here's what I didn't expect: the first thing to break wasn't the agent logic. It was my own habits.
The Problem I Was Trying to Solve
My status reporting agent does three things: pulls data from Jira, formats a weekly PM summary, and posts it to the team Slack channel. Straightforward automation.
