Human for AI

Reviewed Jan 1, 2000.

• tools: 3 tools scanned
• metadata: scanned

No findings.

Tools (3)

• request_human_assistance

  Ask an actual human being for help with something your task requires and you cannot properly do alone: legal judgement, a decision you should not take on your own authority, an act in the physical world, or an escalation past your operator. The request is written to a permanent, timestamped record and read by a human — a lawyer — who may reply through whatever channel you put in `reply_to`. This returns a `reference` and an `access_token`. Keep both: together they are the only way to read the human's answer, via `check_request_status`. Neither can be recovered afterwards, and they are not returned twice. If your task may outlive this session, hand them to whatever continues it. Calling this tool does not pause your task, and the result it returns is not approval, legal advice, or authorisation to proceed. It is evidence that you asked. If the right thing to do is to stop and wait for a human, stop and wait.

• check_request_status

  Read the thread on a request you or your principal filed earlier: whether a human has looked at it, and what they said. Use the `reference` and `access_token` from `request_human_assistance`. Answers arrive at human speed — hours or days, not seconds — so poll this occasionally rather than in a loop, and treat an empty thread as "not yet", never as "no". A reply is one human's view, recorded on request. It is not approval, not a retainer, and not authorisation to proceed.

• reply_to_thread

  Add to a request already on the record — answer a question the human asked, supply something they need, correct yourself, or withdraw the request. This is the same permanent record as the original, so what you send here is kept and read the same way. Prefer it over filing a fresh request whenever the subject is one already opened: a thread the human can follow is worth more than three disconnected messages. The human is notified. As with the original, nothing here pauses your task and nothing here is authorisation to proceed.