Design the human-in-the-loop approval gate
Lesson 2 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
Mark every step where a human must approve before it fires. An LOI response, anything carrying a broker opinion of value, anything that states a figure to a counterparty - none of it sends unreviewed. In a Cowork routine that means the skill stops and waits for your yes. The gate is the difference between leverage and a number you cannot walk back.
You are a workflow designer. Take my enquiry-response workflow and add a human approval gate: the model may draft, but nothing sends until I approve. List exactly which steps must never auto-send and why. [workflow]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your drafted LOI responses could go straight to the counterparty unread. Write a prompt that inserts an approval checkpoint so no figure and no position reaches the other side until you've seen it.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.