# Approval gate

URL: https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/approval-gate

> A control on a specific workflow step that pauses execution until a person approves, edits or rejects it, every time that step runs.

A control on a specific workflow step that pauses execution until a person approves, edits or rejects it, every time that step runs.

An approval gate is a hard, platform-enforced stop on one node, not a request the agent can choose to skip. Every time execution reaches that node, the run pauses, a reviewer sees exactly what is about to happen, and nothing proceeds until they approve, edit an allowed field, or reject it with feedback.

Some actions in a regulated process, sending money, filing a report, emailing a customer, should never execute unattended, no matter how confident the agent is. An approval gate is how that rule is enforced by the system itself rather than left to a prompt instruction.

Before a drafted client report is delivered, a reviewer sees the exact payload that would be sent, approves it as written, edits one allowed field, or rejects it with a note that flows back into the agent's next attempt.

**In Dynamiq**, execution approval is enabled per node with a message template rendered from the node's own input, an optional list of fields a reviewer may edit, and a timeout after which the run checkpoints and waits, sometimes minutes, sometimes days, until a reply arrives. The decision, and any feedback, becomes part of the run's trace.

## See it in Dynamiq

-   [Guardrails and approvals](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/product/guardrails)

## Related terms

-   [Human in the loop](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/human-in-the-loop)
-   [AI guardrails](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/ai-guardrails)
-   [LLM tracing](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/llm-tracing)

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