AI Architecture
Who Approved That? Human-in-the-Loop Patterns for AI Agents That Act
Once an AI agent can write to systems, send email or move money, "a human approves it" is not a design. This guide classifies agent actions by consequence and reversibility, maps each class to an approval pattern, and sets out what the audit record must hold to survive a review, grounded in what Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and Purview actually provide as of September 2026.
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