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Human Review

The gate the runtime accepts. Routed, prioritized, due-dated, and written down.

  • 6reasons an item can carry
  • 4priorities
  • 2ports on the block: approve, reject
  • 8 hmaximum wait before a timeout rejects

What it is

Human Review is where a pipeline pauses for a person. A review block files an item and waits; an agent that is not sure files one instead of guessing; a colleague files a handoff from NoVA. The item carries a queue, a reason — policy, missing evidence, low confidence, returned, handoff, gate — a priority, an assignee and a due date.

Routing rules decide where it lands: first match wins, the rule is recorded on the item so the queue can say why. A person with the reviewer capability approves, edits and approves, returns with guidance, escalates or rejects. The pipeline continues on the approve port with the edited content, or leaves on the reject port where you wired a fix-up path.

A decided item can become a draft knowledge document or a test case, so the correction lands where the next run will find it. Every decision is an audit event with the decider’s name.

Who it is for

The approver who should not have to poll a log, the lead who decides who reviews what, and the auditor who asks who approved it.

Where you get it

Platform, on every tier; a human review meters at one Runtime Credit. The review block and the queue are the same on an App Kit instance.

  • Platform Freecanvas only, no production runs
  • Platform Startreviews metered at 1 credit
  • Platform Team · Businessreviews metered at 1 credit
  • App Kitinside the instance, for that app
Pricing →

What you can do

Producers

Who may ask for a person. Items are created only on the server.

  • The review block

    A control.review block in nQube files the item and waits, keeping the job alive and honoring cancel; the same in batch and streaming.

    nQubePlatform
  • An uncertain agent

    An answer under the guardrail’s confidence files a review with the app and agent on it instead of answering.

    Knowledge · GuardrailsPlatform
  • A handoff

    Any member, or NoVA on their behalf, can file “a person should look at this.” Asking for a human is not deciding.

    NoVAPlatform

Deciding

What a reviewer can do, and who is one.

  • Five verbs

    Approve, edit and approve, return with guidance, escalate, reject. Return and escalate keep the item open.

    ReviewPlatform
  • The reviewer capability

    Set per member under Administration; without it the queue shows the item but hides the decision buttons and says why.

    Administration · MembersPlatform
  • Deep links and the bell

    Each item has a link; the header bell counts unread items and opens the row.

    ReviewPlatform

Routing and record

Where it lands and what remains.

  • Routing rules

    Match on queue, reason, app or priority; set queue, assignee, priority and a due time. Edits are numbered revisions with restore.

    Review · RoutingPlatform
  • Audit

    review.decided is written when the block sees the decision, with the decider as actor.

    Administration · AuditPlatform
  • Feedback loop

    A decided item becomes a draft knowledge document or a test case, recorded on the item.

    ReviewPlatform

What changes when you have it

A gate that counts

A review is one of the two gate kinds agentOS accepts in front of a write. A model is not.

Routed, not dumped

Queue, reason, priority, assignee and due date from rules you set; escalation after a time you set.

The correction lands

A decision becomes a knowledge draft or a test case in one click.

How it works

1

Something asks

A review block, an uncertain agent, or a person filing a handoff.

2

Rules route it

Queue, assignee, priority and due date from the first matching rule; the rule name rides on the item.

3

A reviewer decides

Approve, edit and approve, return with guidance, escalate, reject. Only the reviewer capability or an admin may decide; anyone may triage.

4

The run continues

Approve leaves on one port with the edited text, reject on the other. A timeout you set rejects on its own.

Human Review. The runtime commits only after this, or a keyword filter. Nothing here is a side door.

Compared with the usual way

The usual wayHere
Approval is a Slack message and a thumbs-up emojiA routed item with a reason, an assignee, a due date and an audit event with the decider’s name
Rejection ends the run silentlyReject is a port on the block; wire a fix-up path or a notice
The correction lives in someone’s headOne click makes it a knowledge draft or a test case

Questions people ask

Is a model allowed to approve?

No. A review is a person. The other gate the runtime accepts is a keyword filter. A filter that asks a model is not a gate.

What does it cost?

One Runtime Credit per human review, on the plan’s credit rate.

Can anyone decide?

Anyone can triage and file. Deciding needs the reviewer capability or an admin role.

See it on your workflow

Platform Start is the self-serve canvas. A first pipeline we stand up with you is delivery, priced apart from the subscription.