{
  "id": "approval-gate",
  "name": "Approval gate",
  "kind": "step",
  "description": "Human-Gate or Agent-Gate. SPEC-MANIFEST.md \u00a75.4. One kind, two modes; they differ only in who decides. reviewer: human parks the run as waiting_human. reviewer: agent is a machine check whose verdict is {pass, reason}; today that check is an LLM judge. mode: check is RESERVED and refused. A human gate is optional. Without a key the agent-gate does not wave anything through \u2014 it escalates to a human.",
  "input": {
    "reviewer": {
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "notes": "human | agent. Default human."
    },
    "anchor": {
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "notes": "what is being decided about."
    },
    "rubric": {
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "notes": "REQUIRED when reviewer: agent."
    },
    "escalateOn": {
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "notes": "objection hands a failed check to a person. Default objection."
    },
    "mode": {
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "notes": "check is RESERVED \u2014 refused."
    }
  },
  "output": {
    "pass": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "notes": "reviewer: agent \u2014 the verdict."
    },
    "reason": {
      "type": "string",
      "notes": "reviewer: agent \u2014 why."
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "notes": "reviewer: human \u2014 the run is waiting_human until qloop approve continues it or --reject fails it."
    }
  },
  "needsEnv": [],
  "usedBy": [],
  "contentType": "component",
  "value": "Human-Gate or Agent-Gate. SPEC-MANIFEST.md \u00a75.4. One kind, two modes; they differ only in who decides. reviewer: human parks the run as waiting_human. reviewer: agent is a machine check whose verdict is {pass, reason}; today that check is an LLM judge. mode: check is RESERVED and refused. A human gate is optional. Without a key the agent-gate does not wave anything through \u2014 it escalates to a human.",
  "acceptance": {
    "status": "pending",
    "evidence": []
  }
}