manage-approvals

Human-in-the-loop approval workflows allow you to review and validate sensitive AI actions like payments, email dispatches, and file modifications before execution. This process ensures critical tasks are explicitly approved or rejected by a human user.

Managing pending approval requests in an Obsidian vault involves creating and tracking action requests with statuses like pending, approved, rejected, or expired. You can directly review and process these sensitive operations within your vault interface.

To prevent an AI from sending emails or initiating payments without oversight, configure a task management workflow that requires human validation. The AI creates a review request for sensitive actions, halting execution until you approve or reject it.

Yes, you can track the status and expiry of pending task approvals. The workflow monitors request states including pending, approved, rejected, and expired, ensuring outdated sensitive actions are automatically managed and validated timely.

The human oversight workflow explicitly supports file modifications and financial transactions. It intercepts these sensitive actions, requiring explicit human review and approval before the operations are executed and processed.