Approval Desk
Authorize binds each high-risk act to a named principal and a multi-signature gate./Risky actions wait for a real person to say yes.
SAFE HOLD routes ambiguous or high-risk actions to the approval queue. Unanswered items expire fail-closed./Risky actions pause here. If nobody answers in time, the answer is no.
What goes wrong without it
Approvals are informal and untraceable./Sign-offs happen in chat and are forgotten.
Stale requests are approved out of habit./Old requests get clicked through.
Responsibility cannot be assigned afterwards./No one can say who agreed.
Four steps, in order
Hold
The gateway places the act in SAFE HOLD./The action pauses.
Present
Approver sees agent, evidence level and action./A person sees what and why.
Decide
Approve or deny, recorded against identity./They choose, and their name is saved.
Expire
Unanswered holds are denied after the window./No answer means no.
Key capabilities
Named approvers
Approvals trace to a specific principal./A real name on every yes.
Multi-signature
Higher tiers require more than one key./Big actions need two people.
Expiry
25-second fail-closed window in the demo./Slow answers become a no.
Audit
Decisions join the evidence chain./Everything is on record.
Before and after
A refund above the limit is approved by whoever clicks first./A big refund goes through because someone clicked.
It waits for a named approver; if ignored, it is denied and logged./A named person decides, or it is refused.
Illustrative scenarios. Controls shown are design intent, confirmed by the gates on your own infrastructure.
Related
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Architecture by Salem Salah bin Omair AlShamsi. Delivered with our technology partner.