I Added a Human Veto to My PM Agent — Here's What Broke First
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Human veto in PM agent is a real-world agent orchestration pattern.
Summary
The author added a human approval step to a PM agent that posts Jira status to Slack, but found that after three weeks they were rubber-stamping approvals, defeating the purpose. The fix required adding friction—mandatory comments instead of emoji reactions—and implementing a severity classifier to gate only irreversible actions. The article also highlights lessons on escalation hooks and distinguishing irreversible from annoying-to-undo actions, inspired by Microsoft Conductor's designed-in human-in-the-loop pattern.