Three operator-UX gaps closed:
- Settings dialog's six-category sidebar (General / Appearance /
System AI / Integrations / Security / Maintenance) was
hardcoded English; now flows through AppLocalizations
("Allgemein" / "Darstellung" / "System-KI" / "Integrationen" /
"Sicherheit" / "Wartung"). Same for the per-panel title +
description.
- Per-channel daemon-action labels ('enable autostart' /
'disable autostart' / 'daemon restart' etc.) and the
OK / Failed result line in the toast also moved to l10n,
so the system-action feedback reads as one language.
- New 'Approvals' doc bundle (en + de) under assets/docs/,
registered as a fifth doc card on Welcome plus exposed via
the new public helper. The
Approvals, Audit and Doctor app-bars grow a Help icon button
next to Refresh that opens the matching doc in the existing
bottom-sheet reader — no extra screen, no learning curve.
Studio bumped to 0.67.0; editor path-override pulls in 0.20.1
(flow-list row polish).
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
2.4 KiB
Approvals
An approval is a deliberate human-in-the-loop checkpoint inside a flow. When a step needs a human decision before it proceeds, the flow pauses at that step until a reviewer approves or rejects it.
When to use one
Add an approval step before:
- writing to a system of record (cases, contracts, mailings)
- spending money (LLM tokens above a threshold, API quotas)
- destructive actions (delete, archive, send)
- anything the operator's compliance owner asked you to gate
The approval is a recorded event — every approval shows up in the audit log with the reviewer, decision, and reason.
How a flow declares one
steps:
- id: classify
use: text.classify@^1
- id: review
use: system.approval@^0
with:
title: "Review the classifier output"
details: "$classify.response"
reviewer: "$inputs.reviewer"
timeout_seconds: 600
- id: write
use: erp.write@^1
with:
record: "$review.payload"
system.approval is a built-in capability — no module install
needed. It blocks the flow's run until the matching approval
record reaches a decision (approved / rejected) or the
configured timeout_seconds elapses.
How an operator answers one
The Approvals page lists every pending approval. Click an entry, read the title + details, decide:
- Approve — the flow resumes from this step with the
approval's
payloadas the step output. - Reject — the flow fails at this step with the reviewer's reason; the audit log records the rejection.
Timeouts
If no decision arrives within timeout_seconds, the engine
returns ApprovalTimedOut and the flow fails. Set a timeout
that reflects how long a reviewer can realistically take.
What gets logged
Every approval write hits the audit log:
- approval requested (with the title + details snapshot)
- reviewer-decision recorded (with reason on reject)
- payload + signature on accept
The hash chain catches tampering — an entry that was approved yesterday can't be quietly flipped to rejected today without breaking the chain.
Architecture trade-off
Approvals are stored alongside events in the SQLite audit DB. For higher-assurance deployments, mirror the audit DB to a WORM sink (Compliance Gap 3, option 2). The approval contract is the same either way — the WORM sink just makes the audit trail tamper-evident to outside reviewers, not just to the hub itself.