Human-in-the-Loop Approval

Human review is often described as a safeguard and implemented as a formality: a reviewer approving volumes they cannot realistically read is providing accountability without assurance. Effective review is scoped — applied to outputs that matter, with enough context for the reviewer to judge, and recorded in a way that shows what was reviewed rather than that review occurred. The design question is which outputs require it, since requiring it everywhere guarantees rubber-stamping, and requiring it nowhere places full weight on automated controls.

Approval in Centralpoint is a workflow state on a record rather than a step outside the system, so an AI-generated draft carries the same review, approval and version history as any other content. Governance-tier skills can require escalation rather than completion for classes of request, routing them to a person before an answer is issued at all.