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How do you design human-in-the-loop checkpoints so an agent can pause, ask, and resume?

Autonomous agents still need humans at the right moments. The signal is designing checkpoints: where to interrupt, what to surface, how to persist and resume state, without turning the agent into a click-through rubber stamp.

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Autonomous agents still need humans at the right moments. The signal is designing checkpoints: where to interrupt, what to surface, how to persist and resume state, without turning the agent into a click-through rubber stamp.

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