---
type: "Approval"
title: "Approval — the human-in-the-loop gate"
description: "A staged request requiring human (or N-role) sign-off before a high-impact or low-confidence agent action executes."
resource: "/foureyes-kernel/"
tags: ["governance", "approve"]
timestamp: "2026-06-25"
---

When an action exceeds policy bounds or confidence thresholds, it stages an Approval instead of executing.

# Schema
- `action` — the proposed write
- `reason` — why it was staged (over max_priority, below confidence floor, forbidden term, quiet hours…)
- `status` — pending | approved | rejected
- `approvers` — required signers

# Citations
Maker-checker: [four-eyes kernel](/foureyes-kernel/). Quorum: [review jury](/jury-kernel/). Pre-authorized auto-approval within bounds: conditional delegations. Over a signing limit: [escrow kernel](/escrow-kernel/).