What is Human-In-The-Loop (HITL)?
Anil Murty
This post originally appeared on tokenjam.dev/blog . Human-in-the-loop (HITL) for AI agents means inserting human approval, review, or intervention into an agent's execution at specific decision points: before high-stakes actions, or when agent confidence is low. Rather than letting an agent act autonomously, HITL creates a checkpoint where a human must explicitly approve, review, or reject an action before or after it runs. For agents that act on the real world by sending emails, deleting data,