What problem does it solve?
Lobster reduces risky, one-off automation by providing deterministic, multi-step workflows that can pause for human approval and then resume safely, instead of running side effects immediately.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Deterministic workflow execution: repeated pipeline runs produce consistent outcomes by avoiding LLM variance inside the workflow steps.
- Approval checkpoints: use approval gates to pause before performing side-effectful actions like sending, posting, or deleting.
- Resumable runs: workflows can return a resume token and later continue from the exact halted point.
- Structured envelopes: the tool returns a typed JSON envelope (ok/status/output/requiresApproval) suitable for reliable integration.
Primary use cases include triage and monitoring workflows (e.g., email triage, PR monitoring) where actions may require a human “yes” before execution.
Quick Start
Ask Kova to run an approval-gated Lobster pipeline that triages recent emails and pauses for confirmation before sending any replies.