human-in-the-loop

human-in-the-loop is a skill for Codex from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,908 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for keeping an authorized person involved when an AI agent proposes or performs actions, with approvals, escalation, and records of decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design approval steps, reject or approve flows, dual-control processes, escalation rules, and audit records for agent workflows.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of an agent making an important or irreversible decision without the right review or evidence.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to design approval steps, reject or approve flows, dual-control processes, escalation rules, and audit records for agent workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills/human-in-the-loop
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill human-in-the-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,908 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.01908
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00954
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00191

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4228420ef0d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

human-in-the-loop scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_gate_policy.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agent-engineering/human-in-the-loop/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human in the Loop

Place human judgment at the decision point where it changes risk. A confirmation dialog alone is not oversight: bind an authorized decision to an understandable, immutable action and preserve evidence of what happened.

Inputs

Collect or infer, and label assumptions for:

  • Agent goal, workflow states, and every action it can propose or execute
  • Effect type, reversibility, value, affected people, and worst credible impact
  • Data sensitivity, regulatory or contractual duties, and organizational risk tolerance
  • Stable requester and approver subject identities, role assignments, policy owner, separation-of-duties rules, and coverage hours
  • Required response time, timeout behavior, escalation contacts, and availability target
  • Evidence an approver needs, including provenance, uncertainty, and alternatives
  • Existing identity, policy, audit, ticketing, and notification systems
  • Failure, retry, cancellation, compensation, and incident paths

Do not invent approver authority or organizational policy. If missing information affects a consequential action, produce a proposed policy and mark it for owner approval.

Output contract

Deliver:

  1. An action inventory and rationale-backed risk tier for each action
  2. A gate policy defining validated predicates, eligible approver roles and distinct subjects, quorum, evidence, expiry, timeout, structured escalation, audit-outage behavior, execution-time reauthorization, compensation, break-glass, and separation of duties
  3. A state machine for prepare, review, decision, execution, failure, and recovery
  4. An approval experience that shows the exact action, material effects, uncertainty, provenance, alternatives, and safe reject/edit paths
  5. An append-only decision record schema and retention/redaction requirements
  6. Implementation or a file-level plan, plus policy and concurrency tests
  7. Verification evidence, unresolved policy decisions, residual risk, and an operational recovery plan

Start from assets/approval-policy-template.json when a machine-readable policy helps. Validate it with scripts/validate_gate_policy.py. Read references/gate-design-guide.md for risk-tier and state-machine guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 137 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 4228420ef0d7

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human-in-the-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills (179 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,908 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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