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Covers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-human-in-the-loop-approval-gate-for-autonomous-agents-krdljp98i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KrdLJP98i.png og:image:alt: Building a ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ Approval Gate for Autonomous Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ Approval Gate for Autonomous Agents **[Machine Learning Mastery](https://daily.dev/sources/mlm)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to implementing state-managed interruptions in LangGraph, enabling agent workflows to pause for human approval before resuming. Covers defining a StateGraph with shared agent state, creating draft and send nodes for an email workflow, using a checkpointer to persist state, and simulating human approval by updating the 'approved' field to resume execution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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