Add human approval gates to any AI agent — without 200 lines of plumbing

Finance, legal, and operations will not let an LLM email customers, move money, or change production config without a human in the path. Engineering agrees — then discovers each approval type needs its own webhook, notification channel, timeout job, and audit export.

Teams ship agents without gates, or they ship one brittle gate and avoid the other seven patterns (review, form, clarification, override). AXME Cloud treats human tasks as durable intent states — the agent sleeps, the human acts, the workflow resumes with a tamper-evident record.

An agent drafts a quarterly financial summary from internal data. Before send, legal must review wording and the CFO must approve distribution. With AXME, the agent submits an intent, enters WAITING_FOR_HUMAN for legal review, then a second wait for CFO approval — each with 48-hour timeouts and escalation to a delegate.

If the agent process restarts during a three-day weekend, nothing is lost. Audit exports show who approved which version and when — not a thread in Slack.

Wrap your agent run in axme.submit, then call wait_for_human with task type (approval, review, form, etc.), assignee, timeout, and optional escalate_to. Use delivery modes to surface tasks in your app inbox, email, or SSE dashboard.

Start with one high-risk action (external email, refunds) and expand to eight task types as patterns mature. Link every gate to /audit-trail/ exports for compliance reviewers.