Action Approval Gate

A guardrail that requires explicit human confirmation before an AI agent executes high-impact actions—sending a mass email, issuing a refund above a threshold, deleting records, or pushing code to production. Approval gates are the cheapest and most reliable way to shrink blast radius without slowing the agent down on routine work, and they're a standard requirement in regulated deployments. In [[agentic-commerce]], an action approval gate is what protects an irreversible purchase above the user's [[delegated-purchasing]] threshold.