Approval and Review

How sentinels relate to Inspect’s tool approval and review, and the order they run in.

Outline

This page is an outline: a summary and the sections planned for it, not yet the documentation. See Getting Started for a worked example.

Overview

How a sentinel sits beside Inspect’s existing approval= and review= policies. Covers the order in which they run around a tool call, when to use each, the differences in vocabulary (approve versus continue, and the agent-facing message), and what is planned for running approvers as protocols.

Planned Sections

The order: approval, then the sentinel, before a call; review, then the sentinel, after it
When to use approval, review or a sentinel
Vocabulary: approve and continue; Approval.explanation and Decision.message
Using an approval and a sentinel on one task
Approvers as protocols, as_protocol() (planned)
Reviewers and after-call protocols (under review)